Police have praised the actions of members of the public who rushed to the aid of an Oamaru teenager hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing on State Highway 1 yesterday.

One person is trapped inside a vehicle at Christchurch's Sockburn roundabout.

Jacqui Ansin says she was driving on an Auckland motorway when she heard an "almighty thump", with an unidentified object causing considerable damage to her Maserati.

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A man slipped and suffered injuries near Whangarei Heads.

A motorcyclist who died after a collision with a car in Waikato last week had been the subject of a complaint about his riding only moments before the crash.

An innocent man injured in a motorway shootout will appeal the High Court's decision to throw out his bid for compensation.

Police are still investigating an incident that has left a man critically injured after being hit by a car outside the Auckland Darts Masters.

A man has been injured after suffering an electric shock in West Auckland this evening.

Anne Warner and her husband Alan escaped from a light plane crash that left them with a number of injuries.

A day after the Government pushed new health and safety legislation through Parliament a sharemilker died in a quad bike accident on a Waikato property.

A tourist was airlifted to hospital yesterday evening after his rental van crashed and rolled on to its roof near Charleston, blocking State Highway 6 for about two hours.

A man who died in a workplace incident near Oamaru yesterday has been named by police.

Three people have died in crashes on the nation's roads since late last night and a fourth has been killed in a quadbike incident.

A young man who died in a crash in the Waikato last night was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.

A person is dead after a quad bike accident on a farm in Waikato this morning.

An 84-year-old woman trying to park her car outside the Kurow Four Square yesterday morning instead crashed through the store window.

The stretch of road along State Highway 4, near Kopaki, has been closed after logging truck ran off the road, and lost its load.

Firefighters had to free someone trapped in their car after it rolled in Auckland this afternoon.

An ambulance spokeswoman said the Westpac Rescue Helicopter had been dispatched to a rural location in Dairy Flat.

Two people are in a critical condition, and three others have moderate injuries after a three-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 north of Puhoi.

No serious road accident involving a visitor to this country represents good publicity for the tourism industry.

Hundreds of Hamiltonians woke up with no power today after a driver fleeing police crashed into a power pole.

Richard Neville was sprayed with shrapnel and glass when he caught in the cross-fire.

The motorcyclist killed in a crash near Puhoi yesterday was David Francis Cruickshank, 53, of Wellsford.

The boy fell from his motocross bike and was struck by another motorcycle in the Bay of Plenty.

The death of a motorcylist after his bike collided head-on with a car is the latest in a series of tragedies that happened over the weekend.

The accident happened in Waimana in the rural Bay of Plenty.

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.