A person was killed late last night in a suspected hit-and-run incident in Welcome Bay Rd, Tauranga.

Four people have died in separate crashes around New Zealand, in a ghastly weekend on the nation's roads.

Emergency services say a small child who was trapped in a car that had hit a power pole south of Tauranga was taken to hospital, but later died.

A child is dead after a car hit a power pole south of Tauranga and a 54-year-old woman died after a car left the road and rolled near Wanaka tonight.

A man is making a remarkable recovery after undergoing surgery to remove bone fragments from his brain - but only a centimetre or so could have made the injury much worse.

The man who died when he stepped in to the path of a truck on State Highway 2 at Te Puna yesterday has been named.

A 24-year-old man killed by a train at an Auckland station was texting friends minutes before he died just metres from his apartment.

A man suffered serious burns to most of his body after the boat he was in burst into flames while he was filling the tank with petrol.

Police have named the man who died in a crash on SH3 near Bulls this morning. He was Shane Edgecombe, 20, of Wanganui.

A dad and three children escaped uninjured when their car burst into flames in Queenstown.

A man is trapped in a car and critically injured after a truck and car collided on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

A teenage farmhand became an accidental hero after keeping a potentially disastrous scrub fire at bay.

An 85-year-old pensioner who fell 30m from his clifftop property on to rocks had to wriggle out of his pants to reach his cellphone to raise the alarm.

Police say a motorcyclist likely died on impact when he slid into the path of an oncoming van on State Highway 50 yesterday.

A motorcyclist killed in a collision in Hamilton on Friday night has been named by police as local man Wayde Anthony Thomas.

A New Zealander who died in an avalanche in the French Alps was a “remarkable” woman and an accomplished alpinist and skier, colleagues say.

A 61-year-old Israeli tourist would likely have survived the car crash that killed her in 2013 if she had been wearing a seatbelt, a coroner's inquest has found.

A motorcyclist wearing no helmet or shoes is in a critical condition at Hawke's Bay Hospital after crashing into a fence.

A woman who asked a depressed friend to leave so she could get some sleep has been told she is not to blame for him fatally crashing his car on the way home.

A 6-year-old Stokes Valley girl died after losing control of her quad bike and hitting a fence, north of Masterton, on Sunday afternoon.

Police are seeking witnesses after reports a car veered across the centreline outside Christchurch this morning and crashed head on into a truck and trailer.

A New Zealander is among six skiers who went missing after being carried away by an avalanche during a trek in the French Alps.

A 6-year-old girl has died following a trail biking accident at the Jayden Kilmister trail bike memorial event in Masterton yesterday.

The passenger who was riding pillion on a motorcycle in Huntly on Friday has been named.

The distraught boss of a 27-year-old man killed in a head-on collision says his employee volunteered to take his place on a business trip.

Two men were injured after a truck rolled in Canterbury yesterday.

A brave dad plunged into Auckland Harbour last night to save his three-year-old daughter after she fell.

A father and son are recovering in hospital after falling some 100m down a cliff near Tauranga yesterday.

Civil Aviation Authority investigators have yet to find an obvious cause of a fatal microlight accident which killed two people in Timaru on Friday.