An ambulance is rushing to the scene of a three car crash outside Christchurch this morning, with reports of a person being trapped.

One person has been killed and another seriously hurt in a crash in Gisborne.

A man before the courts in relation to the shooting death of a 2-year-old girl at her Mangere home last month will be charged with manslaughter.

Three people have been injured - one seriously - in a car crash in Northland this afternoon.

Trucks are involved in nearly a quarter of all fatal crashes but, most of the time, they are not at fault. The Ministry of Transport's

A near miss from being paralysed has encouraged a Papanui High School student to make most of her opportunities and try her hand in the modelling scene.

The mother of a Kiwi injured in a chopper crash in South Australia this week says the call alerting her to the accident was her "worst nightmare" come true.

A section of Auckland's Southwestern motorway has reopened after two people were seriously injured in a crash.

The main road in and out of Stillwater is cut off to all traffic this evening as the jaws of life are used to cut a person out of a car following a serious crash.

A head-on crash has injured four people in the Hauraki Plains area.

One person has been taken to the emergency department following a three-way car crash in Palmerston North this morning.

A 19-year-old woman who died when her farm bike was struck by a ute has been named by police.

Two children were flown to Waikato Hospital yesterday after sustaining facial injuries in separate incidents.

Traffic is congested coming into Auckland city from the North Shore after a crash on the Harbour Bridge.

Two car crashes on an icy South Island highway have left seven people injured this morning.

One person is critically injured after a two car crash on State Highway 2, south of Katikati.

One person is dead after a ute and a truck collided near Maramarua this morning, causing the ute to flip.

The chopper pilot behind yesterday's Manawatu River crash rescue has told of a "bloody great team effort" to save lives.

A boy who fell from school playground equipment has escaped serious injury.

One person has been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition following a crash in the central North Island which left five others injured, too.

A woman who fell from a cliff in Auckland's Stanley Bay last night is in a stable condition.

A German tourist has died after falling down a ravine while taking a photo at the ancient city of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes.

A person has died in an accident at a flooring factory in Silverdale, north of Auckland, this morning.

A person has died after an incident at Henderson train station.

A Canadian safety officer wept as he was sentenced today for careless driving causing the death of an 81-year-old woman near Owaka.

Police make major breakthrough into the crash which killed four people near Hamilton Airport on Friday night.

A woman is in hospital with arm and chest injuries after being kicked in the chest by a cow in Hawkes Bay.

Waikato police say they are investigating whether two cars were racing each other and whether an altercation took place shortly before the fatal crash.

State Highway 29a is blocked in both directions following a serious crash that left five people injured, two seriously.

A man in his 60s who was injured in an electrical accident at a Christchurch fertiliser plant remains in intensive care at Middlemore Hospital.