An Auckland man who lost a leg in a motorbike crash in the US says he has cheated death.

Residents living near Tianjin have expressed fears for their safety after reports there could be hundreds of tonnes of dangerous chemicals at the site.

A man who was killed when he was struck by a milk tanker near Te Puke last night has been named.

Two people were taken to hospital after a car went into a ditch in Morrinsville early this morning.

The crash that killed a teenage worker in Auckland this week has prompted calls for tighter safety rules.

A Hamilton man will fight a serious driving charge over the death of his friend and fellow motorcyclist on the outskirts of the city earlier this year.

A crash which killed a teenage girl this week is the second fatal accident to involve an Onyx rubbish truck in Birkenhead in recent years.

The older sister of the 19-year-old woman who was killed in a rubbish truck crash in Auckland says she was dreading seeing the site.

Emergency services are at the scene of a crash, near the intersection of Riccarton Rd and Clyde Rd in Christchurch this morning.

A team of surgeons are battling to save the remaining leg of a young Kiwi almost killed in a motorbike crash in the US.

France has launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off Reunion Island.

The man who spent the night out in the open after his car came off the road in the Coromandel has his friends to thank for his rescue.

Police have named the truck driver who died in a three-vehicle crash near Levin last night.

Traffic is easing for evening commuters on Auckland's Southern Motorway after two crashes caused headaches this afternoon.

The owner of a Papamoa superette says his mum is lucky to be alive after a car smashed through dairy's wall and tore the store apart.

A man had a near miss after a freight train clipped the side of his ute this morning.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash in Beachlands this afternoon.

A 70-year-old pig hunter was knocked unconscious after tumbling 10m down a waterfall in the upper Buller Gorge yesterday while in hot pursuit of his prey.

Police are still in the ''very early'' stages of the investigation into the crash that killed 18-year-old Nakita May Strange and it is unclear when charges will be laid.

A 16-year-old girl is in a stable condition after being flown to hospital following a "heavy fall" from a horse.

A female passenger of a speeding vehicle which crashed near Taumaranui a week ago has died in hospital.

A man who drowned after being thrown from a boat on the Waitara River mouth in Taranaki yesterday has been named by police.

A woman trapped inside a burning Auckland home yesterday morning said the four people sleeping in the house when the blaze broke out are lucky to be alive.

Afatal crash near the Karangahake Gorge that may have been caused by a fallen boulder was not in an area known for rockfalls.

A man was killed he crossed the centre line on State Highway 2 near Paeroa and collided with a car this morning.

The 18-year-old girl who died in a crash in central Dunedin yesterday morning was Nakita May Strange.

A truck has smashed into a pole at an intersection, leaving one person injured and delaying traffic.

People mourning the loss of 14-year-old Rangimaria White, who was killed in a hit-and-run in Opotiki at the weekend, are gathering for her tangi today.

A driver involved in a Dunedin crash rushed to give CPR to a dying teenager who lay unconscious in the back seat of the other car.

Police said the 25-year-old driver of the second ute went straight in and pulled a 35-year-old woman and four-year-old boy from the vehicle.