Around 200 homes and businesses are without power in Whanganui after an early morning smash.

Hundreds of mourners filled an Auckland church yesterday to farewell the 4-year-old boy who died at his daycare last week.

A car with four people inside drove off a bluff on Christchurch's Port Hills last night.

The car flew off the road, smashed through a fence and ploughed into a house in Flat Bush, killing the passenger, in a scene that is disturbingly common.

One person is dead after a car collided with a house on Redoubt Rd in Flat Bush.

The 11-year-old who died in a crash at Ngaruawahia on Friday was aspiring musician Nikau Tamati.

As investigations continue into daycare death the head of Early Childhood Council said no amount of regulations could completely safeguard against tragedy.

There were seven people in the car - all believed to be aged under 15 and many are said to be related to each other, either siblings or cousins.

Auckland's Malayali Indian community is mourning one of its "little angels", who died in a "tragic accident" at a daycare centre on Auckland's North Shore.

A man mistook his own brother for a small animal and fatally shot him during a family hunting trip in South Carolina.

A motorcyclist is in a critical condition after colliding with a car just north of Te Aroha this afternoon.

The old Ngahere Hall has survived the indignity of a car crashing through the wall to end up wedged under the stage.

A dramatic high-speed chase has ended with a stolen car smashing into a power pole in West Auckland.

The glass balcony at the Quest Hotel on Ponsonby Rd shattered and resulted in the woman falling two storeys onto a rocky garden.

A 12-year-old rugby league star who is an induced coma after he was struck by a car while riding his scooter is showing signs of recovery.

A man is dead after an incident in Whanganui.

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Some of the victims of the Croydon tram disaster were decapitated, say witnesses.

The body of a woman killed while crossing the road was left lying on the road for three hours after her death.

A boy describes the dreadful moment a tree crashed down onto friends at an Auckland daycare playground.

A pregnant woman is injured in a car crash in Glen Eden this morning.

The motorcyclist killed in a crash on the Lindis Pass on Sunday was Stephen Ross Philip of Christchurch. Police named the 56-year-old

A man has been hurt in an Otara crash tonight.

Emergency services are at the scene of a two-car crash in Mt Wellington.

There has been a serious crash in Napier tonight.

The community is rallying for a 12-year-old rugby starlet who is in an induced coma after he was struck by a car while riding his scooter.

The former Pike River safety manager who lost one son in the mine explosion tragedy says tuning in to watch a new tele-doco will be too traumatic.

Two people have been seriously injured following a multiple car crash that has also injured four others in central Auckland tonight.

A cyclist is seriously injured after being hit by a bus in central Wellington this morning.

A truck driver was quick to help rescue a woman trapped in her upside-down car.