The Northern Motorway is now open following a truck crash that blocked two southbound lanes earlier this afternoon.

The partner of Sophie Langston vowed at her funeral to look after her twin sister for the rest of his life.

The motorist who died after a crash between her car and a truck and trailer unit in the Waikato has been named by police.

Police and safety investigators are looking into a fatal farm accident in Southland.

A poisons expert says carbon monoxide could be an "insidious" killer, leaving its victims little or no time to act.

The woman who died in a car crash in Otago on Friday has been named.

An elderly man was left lying in a pool of his own blood for half an hour, after two ambulances called to the scene were diverted to more urgent cases.

The father of three children found dead inside an Ashburton home with their mother cannot stop crying because he misses his "beautiful kids" so much.

A man has died in a single-car crash on Great North Road in Auckland tonight.

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.

Safety inspectors are being sent to the remote site of a chopper crash which seriously injured a young pilot on the South Island's West Coast at the weekend.

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.

Injured wakeboarder Brad Smeele is forging an independent life in a newly modified home after a horror crash left him a quadriplegic almost a year ago.

Bus breakdowns and detritus including a ladder and a box compounded chaos on crash-afflicted Auckland motorways this morning.

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.