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Boy suffers serious injuries, skylight fall
Friends of a 12-year-old almost killed when he fell through a skylight on a Palmerston North school roof were "distraught as hell" when police arrived.
Friends of a 12-year-old almost killed when he fell through a skylight on a Palmerston North school roof were "distraught as hell" when police arrived.
The 11-year-old crushed in a lift shaft on the Hibiscus Coast is being remembered at a memorial service today at the property where he died.
"I wish it was me. I was meant to go before my grandchildren. It is a heavy burden I carry every day. It is a life sentence."
Ambulance staff attended an incident in Hawkes Bay this morning after a person was hit by a mobility scooter.
It's an experience that can cause many top public servants a touch of dread - and hours in PR-coached preparation.
Three young lives ended when their car collided with a truck on State Highway 1.
Teina Boyd is paralysed from the chest down but the young mum of one says her goal isn't to walk again - it's to get her laugh back.
A cyclist who was badly injured in a hit-and-run in Highland Park is still in a serious condition in hospital a week later.
A rescue helicopter was dispatched to the Waitawheta Hut in the Upper Kaimai Range, south of Karangahake Gorge
A person has died after being thrown out of their car in a crash on the Coromandel Peninsula this morning.
Seven people have been injured after two vehicles collided in National Park overnight.
A man crushed between two trucks at a Christchurch work site this morning has died in hospital, police have confirmed.
Six people, including two children, have been flown to hospital after a serious two-vehicle crash on the Te Anau-Milford Highway.
A 17-year-old Invercargill girl remained in intensive care at Dunedin Hospital this morning after a single-vehicle crash in Queenstown early yesterday.
Devastated partner of woman killed in head-on crash with oncoming traffic tearfully describes the moment he tried to avoid the smash.
A cyclist is in hospital after being struck by a car last night, and three others are injured after a two-car crash that left both vehicles "totally disintegrated".
Search and rescue volunteers say they completed a five-month taxpayer-funded training course at a polytechnic in one week.
The boyfriend of an Australian woman who fell 7m to her death has denied her grieving family's allegations that he is responsible for killing her.
Police have charged a 29-year-old man with driving dangerously causing death after a fatal vehicle crash near Herbert on Sunday.
A Northland man has died on a farm after his vehicle rolled this morning.
Three people have fortunately survived a crash near Otorohanga in which their car left the road, crashed into a post, flipped in the air and then rolled.
A car driving on the wrong side of the road caused a head-on collision in Hamilton earlier today.
Police say visitors' rental car crossed double yellow lines, apparently while overtaking.
Double-amputee hit with fine for parking his specialist van across two car spaces because he needed room to exit the vehicle in his wheelchair.
Sections of the Auckland motorway network were brought to a standstill last night after a series of crashes.
A rescue helicopter airlifted the 17-year-old woman to Tauranga hospital after the crash.
A Waikato road blocked when a stock truck crashed near Pukeatua has re-opened.
One person has died and another been injured in a two-truck crash, which unleashed a swarm of bees, hindering emergency services attending the incident.
The bodies of all three remaining victims of the helicopter crash have now been airlifted from glacier.
Attempts to recover the remaining three bodies of people killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash have resumed this morning.