A missing Coromandel man who failed to return from an overnight hunting trip was located on Thursday evening down the bottom of a bluff near his home.

A person is dead after a crash between a car and truck on State Highway One near Cambridge today.

More than $22,000 has been raised to help pay for the funeral of an Auckland woman killed in a car accident while travelling home from a funeral.

The man who died in a crash near Clevedon last Thursday was Shaan Singh.

The driver of a truck has been pulled out of the cab uninjured after colliding with a train.

Large crowds and emergency services gathered around the flaming wreckage shortly after the crash in the city of Medan, on Sumatra island.

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.

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.

Six people have been injured this morning after a van carrying a shearing gang skidded on black ice and crashed in South Otago.

One person has died in a crash near Clevedon overnight.

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.

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 man seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in central Auckland on Friday night lost control of his motorbike.

Emergency services workers helped a man from his car as it hung precariously from the back of his hillside garage in Normanby, Dunedin, yesterday.

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.