Investigators are still piecing together the movements of a woman who was found dead in the middle of a highway.

It took just 15 minutes for Ian McDonald's sore shoulder to turn into pain so excruciating it felt like a knife cutting into his spine.

A motorcyclist was critically injured when his bike crashed into a fence in Whanganui tonight.

Authorities are still trying to identify a man who was struck and killed by a train in Auckland today.

A person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a car on Victoria Street in central Auckland.

A man has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after his car smashed into the back of a truck in Auckland tonight.

Thick, black oil washed up on properties as far as Mangatapu last night after a spill in Tauranga Port yesterday - with fears for surrounding wildlife.

This week, US district court judge Anita B Brody signed off on a settlement between more than 5000 players and their former employers that could cost the NFL as much as US$765 million, writes Dylan Cleaver.

Police believe they know the identity of a pedestrian who died when he was hit by a train in Auckland this morning.

A New Zealand Herald delivery driver could have survived an early morning crash today if he had been wearing his seatbelt, police say.

Police have named the 75-year-old man who was struck and killed by a vehicle yesterday.

A driver who crashed a stolen car into a suburban house was among several people caught up in car crashes and police pursuits overnight.

"I'm a stubborn old bastard. Most old folk would give up. But I made a vow to a lady who passed away." Fin has won a long-running battle over compensation.

A man who died after his car crashed off a bridge and plunged down to a car park below has been named by police.

A shipwreck in which hundreds of people are feared dead may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis.

The man, in his mid-20s, who had two passengers in his car, led police on a 45-minute, high-speed chase that spanned more than 20km across Auckland.

An elderly woman was metres from her home when she was struck by a car last night.

A man who allegedly hit a woman in the rental car he was driving, then fled the scene, has been named.

The man killed in a head-on collision on a Coromandel highway yesterday has been named by police.

A French tourist who backed her rental car over a cliff above Lake Wanaka early yesterday afternoon had a lucky escape from serious injury.

A seriously injured driver was trapped in his vehicle after it and an empty fuel tanker collided in Invercargill today.

It felt like half of Michele Foster-Chambers' body was crushed when she was hit by a car on an Auckland street.

The number of people killed on NZ roads so far this year is 20 per cent higher than at the same time last year, with a "spike" in the number of passengers killed.

A man killed when he was trapped under a heavy vehicle at a Bay of Plenty quarry today was a 24-year-old from Tauranga, police say.

An 8-year-old girl was hit by a car on State Highway 1 today after the car she was in pulled over so the occupants could take photos north of Kaikoura.

One person is dead and another critically injured and trapped inside a car following a head-on collision in the Coromandel this morning.

The crash took place on the Northern Motorway at Dairy Flat around 4.30am.