A fuel tanker carrying 13,000 litres of diesel has rolled, trapping a driver this morning and causing fuel to leak.

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.

A young Briton is in a Christchurch spinal unit after breaking his back in a Queenstown tree climbing fall.

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 has died this afternoon after colliding with another vehicle in Hawke's Bay.

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.