Crowds of out-of-control partygoers were stunned into silence when an 18-year-old's car plunged over the edge of a bank in Oropi as he fled police on Friday night.

A toddler who was badly burned by a pot of hot coffee last year has been reunited with the paramedics who attended to him.

A child is dead and and five others are seriously injured - two critically - following a crash between two vehicles in Canterbury today.

Traffic was at a standstill this evening on Auckland's northwestern motorway following a four-car crash.

An elderly man has been seriously injured after his mobility scooter and a truck collided in Mosgiel today.

Government safety officials are investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who died in a quad bike accident on a farm near Kaikohe.

A road-safety advocate says the Government is not doing enough to prevent tourist crashes.

The boat of two fishermen missing from Port Waikato since Monday may never be recovered, police say.

Two men critically injured in a forestry accident had been hauling a big log up a deep gully before it suddenly turned on them, striking one man in the head.

John Beckenridge’s vehicle appears to have been driven at “high speed” off a Southland cliff, which could indicate a grim outcome for the missing pair.

The 14-year-old teenage boy who died following a quad bike accident has been named by police.

Police said the crash happened south of the Redoubt Road off-ramp about 6am.

The 26-year-old local, whose partner was riding another motorcycle just behind him, crashed into a car in Tauranga last night.

The families of two fishermen missing at Port Waikato endured a third anxious night waiting for any news of their loved ones.

Two men were seriously injured in a logging accident in a forest in the Coromandel this afternoon.

Tauranga Police, Fire and Ambulance services are at the scene of a single fatality crash involving a car and a motorcycle.

Authorities are investigating the possibility that John Beckenridge and his 11-year-old stepson Michael Zhao-Beckenridge have left the country, police say.

A fisherman missing with a friend after crossing the Port Waikato Bar usually stayed clear of the notoriously dangerous stretch of water.

The family of a toddler who almost drowned after falling into an effluent trap have thanked the public for all their "love and support".

A paraglider stranded on a steep mountainside as night closed in was saved by rescuers using night vision gear after he was forced to make an unplanned landing.

Fan injuries after firework explosives at the All Blacks test leads to court hearing.

The girl who almost choked to death in a horror karting incident remains in Starship hospital.

The parents of a young woman killed in the 2012 Carterton hot-air balloon crash say they waited six days to see her body.

Three people were taken to hospital after a car and truck collided on State Highway 2 in the Waioeka Gorge, south of Opotiki, last night.

The search has resumed this morning for a 74-year-old man who has been missing since his boat capsized at Manukau Heads yesterday.

Ironically just before an Easter promotion for traffic safety by a local radio station and Whangarei police began a driver crashed into a pole.

ACC is warning Kiwis to beware this Easter, as waistlines are not the only thing at risk over the annual holiday.

A French cyclist riding on a footpath who knocked over a pedestrian and broke his hip has been ordered to pay his victim $600 before he leaves New Zealand.