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.

The mother of a 6-year-old hit by a car as he walked to school believes he owes his life to the actions of a Sikh man who removed his turban to stem the bleeding.

A pedestrian has been killed after they were hit by a train in Auckland tonight.

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.

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

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

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.

"I was just parked there and all of a sudden I saw the funeral car's boot open."

An unmanned rubbish truck has smashed through the front of a heritage building in Auckland this morning.

A father was driving past the wreckage of a car crash by chance when he learned his wife and son had died at the scene.

Jamie Johnston never got the chance to give his mother Ginny her Mother's Day present after a duck hunting trip went horribly wrong.

A male driver is said to have been hysterical after learning a child had been badly injured in a crash last night.

Two promising rugby players are fighting for their lives last night after they were thrown from a vehicle that crashed on a remote road after a party.

Warkworth man Karl McCallion, 46, died in a crash on SH1 near Satellite Station Rd intersection about 9.15pm Saturday, police said.

A planned Mother's Day reunion has ended in tragedy for an Auckland family who lost three relatives in a horrific car crash.

The deaths of 10 people on New Zealand roads this weekend, including in a pair of triple-fatality crashes, have been lamented by police as a “preventable tragedy”.

The Bay of Plenty crash took the weekend's road toll to seven after three other fatal crashes.

Police have been ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a truck driver who they blamed for a crash caused by an off-duty cop.

A number of people are dead after a fiery vehicle crash in the Bay of Plenty tonight. One of the vehicles was engulfed in flames and it was not yet known how many people have died.

Police want to speak to the driver of a van after two people died in a head-on crash on State Highway Three near Marton this afternoon.