A man has been taken to hospital after getting his legs caught underneath a digger in Te Awamutu today.

A man is in critical condition after falling from a truck at a wharf onto a boat below.

A 9-year-old child has been injured in a crash involving a car and truck north of Auckland this morning.

Another horror weekend on the water has seen this year's drowning toll hit 30 after two people died and three were taken to hospital.

Surviving a horror boat accident which claimed the life of a friend has completely changed New Zealand woman Sarra Hunter-Weston's outlook on life.

An 18-month-old boy who was rescued from the Hauraki Gulf two days ago is still critically ill in hospital.

The bodies of two German teens killed when the car they were in was crushed by a giant beech tree in Fiordland have arrived home.

Denise Robinson Winskill was killed when her husband accidentally ran over her in his ute in October 2013.

Hemi James Rapaea "is of no fixed abode" and was apparently picked up by the driver as he was hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Napier.

A member of a diving party says conditions were perfect for night-time diving when two men drowned at Great Barrier Island.

The names of two men who died off Great Barrier Island and were thought to have been freediving at night when they disappeared can now be reported.

Just a block away from where she died, Chantelle Giles was farewelled in Patea today.

Across the country flowers are being left out with the milk for tanker drivers to collect in memory of Michael Fairclough.

A Hamilton woman was killed instantly after losing control of her car in her driveway, speeding off and driving it through her neighbour's fence.

Elyse Brown is a quiet little girl, but her father says he'll make sure they keep talking about her mother and brother, who died in a horror car crash near Te Kuiti last week.

The husband of a woman killed in a head-on car crash in Putaruru last week has been charged in relation to her death.

One person is dead and another is in serious condition after a two vehicle crash on State Highway 14, west of Whangarei, police said.

A father has shared memories of his "shining star" who was killed in head-on collision.

A woman was trapped in her car for over an hour after a crash in Dairy Flat this evening.

A child remains in a critical condition and a woman has been transferred to Auckland City Hospital after two people died in a crash in rural Waikato.

McDonald's has given $5000 to a man who can't walk after he crushed his spine tripping on a kerb outside one of its restaurants.

Andy Beech, 46, was heading to the carpark, after having lunch at McDonald's with his brother Barry on August 11, when he tripped over a concrete kerb that encroached on a pedestrian crossing over the drive-through.

A highly respected member of Otago hapu Te Runanga o Otakou is one of two men found dead after a boat foundered off Fiordland yesterday.

A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a car near Hampden in North Otago, closing part of State Highway 1.

One person has died in a single-vehicle crash in Waikato this afternoon.

An American tourist whose wife was killed in a crash in South Waikato is now in a stable condition in Waikato Hospital.

The family of a young mountain biker killed in the Whakarewarewa Forest have told an inquest their son and brother had "a short, but good life".

A motorcyclist is in a critical condition after colliding with a car on State Highway 16.

Helicopter pilot Todd Dunham had a day to remember yesterday, rescuing two men attacked by animals in separate incidents in the Bay of Plenty.