A female in her late teens was the sole occupant of a car which left the road and crashed down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

An unlicensed driver who killed his friend after crashing an unwarranted car during a high-speed police chase has been jailed for five years.

Several cars have slid off the road after a large diesel spill in south Auckland this morning.

The driver of a car that hit a 6-year-old boy on his way to school has given an emotional apology to the boy's family.

A 19-year-old woman driving a ute which skidded off the road and rolled into a paddock has told of the panicked minutes before she was rescued.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a ute near Warkworth this morning.

A Transdev suburban rail network spokesman said it was company policy to automatically offer support in instances like this.

Sydney teen Josh Taylor held a loaded revolver to his head and pulled the trigger in a game of Russian roulette.

A man killed when his car plummeted off a bridge and into a river northwest of Whangarei last week has been named by police.

A tasty winter warmer is putting more and more Kiwi children in hospital with serious scalds and burns.

A man escaped a moving wall of terror when a Subaru crashed through his garage while he was inside vacuuming his car.

An experienced power line worker was last night fighting for his life after being flung from a live transformer in Auckland.

"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.

When his grandfather collapsed from a seizure, 5-year-old Max Murphy knew exactly what to do.

"I was just parked there and all of a sudden I saw the funeral car's boot open."

An unmanned rubbish truck has smashed through the front of a heritage building in Auckland this morning.

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.