Fatal crash closes part of SH1
A person is dead and two others are injured following a crash on State Highway 1 this afternoon.
A person is dead and two others are injured following a crash on State Highway 1 this afternoon.
The owner of a helicopter that "rolled over" on take-off in the mountains behind Hari Hari on Saturday, seriously injuring the pilot, does not yet know what caused the crash.
Mashed between a footpath and the side of a bus, Bruce Copeland says he had seconds to unclip his cycle cleats and jump to safety.
Safety inspectors are being sent to the remote site of a chopper crash which seriously injured a young pilot on the South Island's West Coast at the weekend.
A 70-year-old tramper was yesterday recovering in hospital after he and his wife were trapped in snow for a night.
A chopper crash in a remote part of the South Island’s West Coast has seriously injured the young pilot and hit the helicopter community hard.
Three people have survived a helicopter crash in Westland National Park this morning.
William Longbottom jokes that his new thumb looks "a bit Frankensteinish" because, after all, it is really a toe.
A car has flipped onto its roof following a collision with another vehicle on the Hibiscus Coast, Auckland.
A toddler who survived a fall from a moving train carriage on a popular tourist railway line on the Coromandel Peninsula is recovering well.
Injured wakeboarder Brad Smeele is forging an independent life in a newly modified home after a horror crash left him a quadriplegic almost a year ago.
Bus breakdowns and detritus including a ladder and a box compounded chaos on crash-afflicted Auckland motorways this morning.
An elderly woman was seriously injured when she was hit by a car while crossing the road in Manurewa earlier today.
The wife of a man seriously injured in a two-truck crash in south Auckland yesterday had a "lucky day" after she changed her mind about travelling with him, emergency services say.
The driver of a taxi which struck and seriously injured a pedestrian after an All Blacks test, has been convicted, disqualified from driving and given a financial penalty.
One person has been airlifted to hospital in a serious condition following a two-truck crash in South Auckland.
A car bursts into flames near the Birkenhead off-ramp of the Auckland Harbour Bridge yesterday moments after the driver jumped out.
No charges will be laid after a mystery chemical at a south Auckland shopping mall put three paramedics in hospital yesterday.
The condition of the 9-year-old schoolboy injured as a result of jumping out of a window has improved from critical to serious.
We think of death on the roads as something that happens to other people. But when that other person is someone we feel we know, it rams home the reality, writes Paul Thomas.
The New Zealand Mountain Safety Council has reminded hunters about firearm safety after two hunting tragedies last month.
Experts are still trying to identify a mystery chemical at a South Auckland shopping mall that put three paramedics in hospital yesterday.
A trailer being towed by a ute flipped on a Canterbury motorway this afternoon, spilling chemicals onto the road, and slowing traffic.
A Manawatu man was seriously injured when he was struck by a motorcyclist in a hit and run incident over the weekend.
The tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been jailed.
A close friend of Alana Madill has paid tribute to a woman she says was an "exceptionally vibrant person".
An Auckland man has escaped any penalty after accidentally killing his 2-year-old son in a driveway, and his lawyer says the prosecution seemed "pointless".
Police are investigating a spectacular crash overnight in Christchurch where a nd flipped onto its roof.