The company behind an All Blacks pre-match fireworks display that exploded into the crowd injuring three fans has pleaded guilty to seven charges.

A 45-year-old man suffered serious head injuries in a motorcycle crash at Taupo Motorsport Park.

More details have emerged about a boating tragedy on the Waikato River that left one man dead and his three mates clinging to trees after their runabout capsized yesterday.

A bend in a busy Auckland road with a history of crashes has claimed its fifth victim in just two days.

Two people were killed on the roads in separate incidents during the weekend.

The funeral for a 14-month-old toddler who was fatally hit by a car in Kamo last week will be held today at the Pehiaweri Marae in Whangarei.

Two weeks ago, 11 people died on the roads in one weekend. Simon Plumb looks at the impact these tragedies have had on those who remain.

The mother whose young tot was killed in the carpark of a Northland school had just returned to New Zealand for a holiday with her family.

A female in her late teens was the sole occupant of a car which left the road and crashed down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

An unlicensed driver who killed his friend after crashing an unwarranted car during a high-speed police chase has been jailed for five years.

Several cars have slid off the road after a large diesel spill in south Auckland this morning.

The driver of a car that hit a 6-year-old boy on his way to school has given an emotional apology to the boy's family.

A 19-year-old woman driving a ute which skidded off the road and rolled into a paddock has told of the panicked minutes before she was rescued.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a ute near Warkworth this morning.

A Transdev suburban rail network spokesman said it was company policy to automatically offer support in instances like this.

Sydney teen Josh Taylor held a loaded revolver to his head and pulled the trigger in a game of Russian roulette.

A man killed when his car plummeted off a bridge and into a river northwest of Whangarei last week has been named by police.

A tasty winter warmer is putting more and more Kiwi children in hospital with serious scalds and burns.

A man escaped a moving wall of terror when a Subaru crashed through his garage while he was inside vacuuming his car.

An experienced power line worker was last night fighting for his life after being flung from a live transformer in Auckland.

"Anyone would have done the same." Harman Singh woke up yesterday to hundreds of messages praising his humanity.

A man is in a serious condition after a car struck a power pole in Remuera this afternoon.

"He didn't care that his head was uncovered in public. He just wanted to help this little boy that he had no relation to."

Navdeep Kaur called out to her brother to come inside for dinner - then a car smashed into the garage, right where her brother had been just moments earlier.

A 5-year-old boy is now in a stable condition at Starship Hospital after he was hit by a car in South Auckland.

Richie McCaw's old rugby club has cancelled tomorrow's match in honour of a clubmate killed in a horror crash last weekend.

The man who helped load a corpse back into the hearse it fell out of at a busy Auckland intersection has had trouble sleeping since the spooky ordeal.

When his grandfather collapsed from a seizure, 5-year-old Max Murphy knew exactly what to do.