A person killed after being hit by a train near Palmerston North went unnoticed for two hours.

Robert Su, with whom Karen had been together for eight years, was crossing Fanshawe St when a truck ploughed through a red light and hit him.

There's been more trouble for motorists on State Highway 1 after a single-vehicle crash on the road used as a diversion due to an earlier crash.

Detours are in place after truck crash on the Desert Road early this morning.

A woman in her 70s is dead after the vehicle she was driving hit a fence in Remuera.

A man was killed when his car hit a tree on a Wellington residential street last night.

The boy who fell through the skylight of a school in Palmerston North on Friday night is in a stable condition in hospital.

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.

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

Colin Andrew Craig, a 65-year-old from Christchurch, died in hospital after the accident at GVI Logistics in Ivan Jamieson Place, near Christchurch Airport.

A man has suffered head injuries after being thrown from his vehicle in an early morning police chase in Queenstown.

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 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".

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.

Search and rescue volunteers say they completed a five-month taxpayer-funded training course at a polytechnic in one week.

An avid sailor who is recovering from his injuries after the boom on his yacht struck him in the head, credits his survival to careful planning and regular contact throughout his journey.

A man who died after the truck he was in went over the edge of a wharf was a well-known and loved person in his local community.

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.