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

A man is in a serious condition after a car struck a power pole in Remuera this afternoon.

"He didn't care that his head was uncovered in public. He just wanted to help this little boy that he had no relation to."

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.

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.

A teen pulled the battery from a crashed car to stop it being restarted as petrol spilled around.

The school attended by a teenage boy who shot himself in a tragic hunting accident will close on Thursday as a mark of respect.

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.

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.

A St John Ambulance officer has been reprimanded after a woman fell on concrete and her husband was called a "fat man".

A Sri Lankan national has admitted he struck a woman while driving a rental car and talking on a mobile phone, then fled the scene.

An 18-month-old girl run over in the driveway of her Paeroa home remains in a serious but stable condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit.

A cyclist has been taken to hospital after it is believed he was hit by a car on St John's Hill.

Police say there was no foul play to a car fire near Nelson in which a person was dead.

A two-car crash near a busy interchange has obstructed traffic this morning.