An elderly Opotiki man remains in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital after crashing his campervan near Matamata yesterday.

A man was killed in the early hours of this morning after being hit by a city-bound train in the Christchurch suburb of Belfast.

A fuel tanker driver escaped without major injuries after his vehicle rolled in Southland this morning.

The death of a 5-year-old girl, killed while out riding her bicycle yesterday, could have been prevented, her family says.

It has taken eight months but Mark Somervell is finally walking again. Now, he has been fitted with a prosthetic leg.

Twisted ankles, broken bones and other school holiday mishaps cost millions of dollars each year.

A young Tauranga girl has died when she was hit by a four wheel drive while riding her bike.

An avoidable summertime "disease" is killing Kiwi blokes and is caused by men who back themselves beyond their abilities in the water, says an expert.

A car has crashed down a bank off Maraetai Dr in east Auckland, injuring five people.

A motorcyclist has died after striking a road barrier on State Highway One in the Waikato this morning.

The girlfriend of a longboarder who died when he was struck by a car says the driver remains a dear friend and has "nothing to apologise for".

New Zealand's road toll is standing at 98, 13 more than this time last year.

People inside two cars have escaped without serious injury after a fiery, high-speed crash on the outskirts of Invercargill overnight.

A man is dead after a motorcycle crash near Dairy Flat, north of Auckland, a police spokesman confirmed early this morning.

A 72-year-old Waikato man has died after cutting himself with an angle grinder on a farm near Masterton.

Former Gore mayor Ian Tulloch is out of intensive care and "on track to begin rehabilitation", his family says.

A man who fell badly while performing a motorcycle jump is believed to have suffered multiple leg fractures.

Emergency services are responding to what is understood to be a serious car crash near Whanganui.

A Givealittle page has been set up for a woman seriously hurt in a Good Friday car crash in Gisborne which landed seven people in hospital.

The 4-year-old boy who was in serious condition after a head-on car crash near Gisborne on Good Friday remains in hospital.

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Students at a Tuakau high school, south of Auckland, are mourning the death of a classmate who drowned at the Hunua Falls on Easter Monday.

Video interview with parents Simon & Nerolie Curran, who's 5 year-old daughter Jasmine suffered a cardiac arrest while on a family holiday.

A man has died after the car he was driving left the road and crashed into a rock in Westport this afternoon.

The woman most seriously injured of seven hurt in Friday's head-on car crash near Gisborne remains critically ill in the intensive care unit at Waikato Hospital.

When the driver of the car which struck and killed Shayne Hunter's longboarding son walked through his front door, he was greeted with a big hug and a few tears.

A longboarder who died while skating down a steep Kapiti Coast road was last night lovingly remembered by his family and friends.

The man who died in a longboarding accident on Friday night has been identified as 21-year-old Tristan Hunter.

Police have named 62-year-old Kusum Rohit Kenia as the person who died in a Central Otago crash yesterday.

Up to six motorcyclists were involved in a crash in the Manawatu region this afternoon.