Firefighters are battling to free the person from the car and the extent of their injuries are unknown.

Firefighters had to free an injured motorist after a two-car crash in St Johns, Auckland.

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.

A Palmerston hunter used his T-shirt and duct tape as a tourniquet before hobbling more than 200m to meet rescuers after impaling his leg in the Maungatua Range.

Two people have been taken to hospital with injuries after a three car crash in Coatesville this evening.

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 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.

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.

One person is dead and another injured after the rubbish truck they were in plummeted 10m down a bank.