In a game full of hard men, Jerry Collins, the kid from Porirua, stood out head and shoulders - and 58cm biceps - above them all.

The passenger of a car that crashed in Feilding yesterday has died in hospital.

Children among four people hurt after truck rolls in the Bay of Plenty, with one of the four critically injured.

A car that struck a power pole cut electricity to 600 homes in Auckland this morning.

The camera of an American woman mauled to death by a lion in South Africa has been taken by police investigating what prompted the big cat to pounce.

Two pedestrians have died and one is in hospital in a serious condition after being hit by vehicles in separate incidents in the past two days.

A person has been taken to hospital after being hit by a bus in central Auckland tonight.

An elderly woman has died after being hit by a van in Orewa this afternoon.

Auckland police have named the pedestrian killed after being hit by a truck in the central city last night.

A man has been killed by a falling tree in Northland as ferocious thunder storms and lightning strikes bore down on Auckland and the upper North Island.

The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.

A learner driver who killed two Mosgiel siblings - including his then girlfriend - has robbed a mother of seeing what her children would become, he was told this morning.

The country’s top road cop is lamenting the deaths of five people over the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, including a 5-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday.

There were feral scenes outside a Dunedin courthouse as associates of a learner driver jailed on two counts of manslaughter took their anger out on the media.

A Kiwi mother managed to shield her 8-month-old baby from injury as they tumbled 10m down a ravine in Spain.

The Queen's Birthday holiday road toll stands at a minimum of three this evening, with potentially a further fatality, following a number of crashes over the weekend.

On the final day of the long weekend, motorists are being urged to prepare for their journeys home.

The woman who died after trying to do a U-turn on a Bay of Plenty road yesterday has been named.

A toddler critically injured when he ran into the path of a car on Auckland's Mt Eden Rd had his third birthday this week in a rehab centre.

A bus passenger and a driver of a car were injured in a serious crash in East Auckland on Saturday afternoon.

A woman died after trying to do a U-turn when a logging truck struck her vehicle outside of Te Puke this morning, police say.

"I don't feel like he's gone forever because he's just gone for a trip and he's going to be back" says wife of man who died during duck hunting trip.

Daejon Pahia was walking to school with his 8-year-old sister when a 4X4 hit him as he crossed Manuroa Rd near Takanini School on May 15.

The 9-year-old boy injured in a mysterious incident at Taradale Primary School was reportedly trying to escape from a toilet.

A 63-year-old man is in Waikato Hospital with serious head injuries after falling down a bank in Taupo last night.

New Zealand has recorded the sharpest increase in annual road deaths of a group of 28 countries in an international study.

As he lay trapped under an SUV, a cyclist critically injured in a car accident in central Auckland was asking people to lift the vehicle off him.

A scene examination at a Napier school where a young boy was seriously injured has been completed - but police are still not revealing the cause of the incident.

Emergency services assess the scene of a Delta truck, which came off McMeeking Rd, on the Otago Peninsula, and rolled yesterday.

Harman Singh says act of cradling young boy who had been hit by car helped him cope with father's death. "If he could see me right now, I think he would be proud."