John Beckenridge’s vehicle appears to have been driven at “high speed” off a Southland cliff, which could indicate a grim outcome for the missing pair.

The 14-year-old teenage boy who died following a quad bike accident has been named by police.

Police said the crash happened south of the Redoubt Road off-ramp about 6am.

The 26-year-old local, whose partner was riding another motorcycle just behind him, crashed into a car in Tauranga last night.

The families of two fishermen missing at Port Waikato endured a third anxious night waiting for any news of their loved ones.

Two men were seriously injured in a logging accident in a forest in the Coromandel this afternoon.

Tauranga Police, Fire and Ambulance services are at the scene of a single fatality crash involving a car and a motorcycle.

Authorities are investigating the possibility that John Beckenridge and his 11-year-old stepson Michael Zhao-Beckenridge have left the country, police say.

The air search today for the two missing fisherman was unsuccessful, police say.

The family of a toddler who almost drowned after falling into an effluent trap have thanked the public for all their "love and support".

A paraglider stranded on a steep mountainside as night closed in was saved by rescuers using night vision gear after he was forced to make an unplanned landing.

The girl who almost choked to death in a horror karting incident remains in Starship hospital.

Fan injuries after firework explosives at the All Blacks test leads to court hearing.

The parents of a young woman killed in the 2012 Carterton hot-air balloon crash say they waited six days to see her body.

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.

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.

A teenage German tourist has today admitted careless driving after a crash on the West Coast caused by his driving on the wrong side of the road.

A man who died after falling from his motorbike north of Whangarei was run over by a following rider on a Harley Davidson as he lay in the middle of the road.

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.