Three people were taken to hospital after a car and truck collided on State Highway 2 in the Waioeka Gorge, south of Opotiki, last night.

The search has resumed this morning for a 74-year-old man who has been missing since his boat capsized at Manukau Heads yesterday.

Ironically just before an Easter promotion for traffic safety by a local radio station and Whangarei police began a driver crashed into a pole.

ACC is warning Kiwis to beware this Easter, as waistlines are not the only thing at risk over the annual holiday.

A French cyclist riding on a footpath who knocked over a pedestrian and broke his hip has been ordered to pay his victim $600 before he leaves New Zealand.

A man who died after crashing his car into a tree in the Waikato was not wearing a seatbelt, police say.

A car crashed through a fence and just stopped short of a playground after a four-vehicle crash on State Highway 2.

A decision, by police looking for a missing 11-year-old boy, was still being made on how to extract a vehicle from the bottom of a Southland bay.

Trees saved a driver who plunged 25m down a bank in his car this morning.

The man killed in a collision on State Highway 33 at Paengaroa yesterday was Ian Barton Foote, 47, from Te Puke.

The school where a boy disappeared from with his stepfather despite a parenting order says any child could leave the school if they really wanted to.

Police are working to piece together events that lead to the death of a man who came off his motorcycle north of Whanagrei this morning.

Tourists and New Yorkers have been slammed for taking selfies while visiting the scene last week's devastating gas explosion in the East Village.

Police searching for a missing 11-year-old boy and his stepfather have gone back into the water at Curio Bay in Southland, where they have found a vehicle earlier identified by underwater camera.

The shocked families of the dead stood vigil in Barcelona airport all day, in tears, leaving only after night fell and police ushered them out.

Pilots and cabin crew refused to fly over concerns the crash may have been linked to a repair to the nose-wheel landing doors, according to an unconfirmed report in Spiegel magazine

The driver of a suspected stolen truck tried to ram a police car before travelling the wrong way down Auckland’s Southern Motorway during a police chase.

German tourist who ran a stop sign and caused a crash that killed a Canterbury mother-of-two ordered to pay compensation to grieving children.

Rock legend David Crosby has seriously wounded a jogger after hitting him with his car.

A person has died in an incident involving a tractor on a farm near Oxford in Canterbury, police say.

Dozens of military personnel were injured when an RAF transport plane nose-dived 4,400ft after the captain's camera became lodged alongside the aircraft's joystick.

A 21 year-old woman has handed herself into Auckland police after a hit and run that left a man with serious injuries on Sunday morning.

Six Dunedin students are lucky to be alive after their car was torn apart in a horrific crash.

A woman frantically chopped off a girl's hair to save her life, after the girl's hair became tangled in the wheels of a kart when playing with a school friend.

A car has flipped while towing a trailer with another car in it on a motorway south of Auckland this afternoon.

A man was flown to hospital after being seriously injured in a water skiing accident at Taupo today.