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.

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.

A trailer being towed by a ute flipped on a Canterbury motorway this afternoon, spilling chemicals onto the road, and slowing traffic.

A Manawatu man was seriously injured when he was struck by a motorcyclist in a hit and run incident over the weekend.

The tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been jailed.

A close friend of Alana Madill has paid tribute to a woman she says was an "exceptionally vibrant person".

An Auckland man has escaped any penalty after accidentally killing his 2-year-old son in a driveway, and his lawyer says the prosecution seemed "pointless".

Police are investigating a spectacular crash overnight in Christchurch where a nd flipped onto its roof.

A teenager was critically injured and had to be cut from his car after a crash left it wrapped around a tree.

Nearly $14,000 has been raised for the daughter of former All Black Jerry Collins.

About 1500 people rallied in Narbonne late last night to pay tribute to former All Black Jerry Collins and his Canadian partner Alana.

Crushed beneath the front of a four-wheel-drive, Peter Redmond thought he would never see his fiancee again or meet their unborn child.

Talk of a permanent memorial for former All Black Jerry Collins is something Porirua mayor Nick Leggett is open to - but only once the family has had time to grieve.

Family and friends have made it to Montpellier to be beside Jerry Collins' critically-injured baby daughter, including her aunt from Canada and extended Samoan rugby family.