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.

Police urge motorists to take extra care after two people die on Waikato roads within four hours of each other.

The coronial process has been inextricably linked to New Zealand becoming a safer place to live and visit over the last 20 years, a retiring coroner has said today.

The driver of a truck that smashed through a barrier, plunged down a bank and landed on a motorway 7m below reckons he's had worse injuries during his jockey days.

A man has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after a crash in Takapuna, Auckland today.

A gas leak in Ponsonby led to the evacuation of many businesses in the area last night.

When Harley McEwan's lawnmower stalled, he instinctively used his hand to remove the sticks caught between the machine's cutter blade - without stopping the motor.

One person is confirmed dead and six others are injured after two trucks and an SUV towing a trailer collided tonight in Western Bay of Plenty.

Two gliders have landed safely with no injuries south of Auckland, despite earlier reports of a light aircraft crash.

The object that flew through a windscreen, killing a young driver, has never been found - and now a coroner has said, it's unlikely that it ever will be.

80-year-old Tararua farmer Donald Robbie was driving his farm truck, with 4.5c metres of gravel down a steep hill when his brakes failed.

A man escaped with his life when the concrete-cutting saw he was operating kicked back, slicing open his throat.

A man understood to be an experienced climber is in the intensive care unit at Dunedin Hospital in a serious condition after a 6m fall.

The death of a New Zealand lawyer killed by a falling shop sign in London was due to health and safety failings, an inquest has ruled.

A woman has been taken to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition after she was hit by a car on State Highway 29 this afternoon.

A three-car smash on Auckland’s Harbour bridge has left a lane blocked, and traffic building up.

A truck driver who crashed through a barrier in a dramatic Auckland motorway smash yesterday morning says the crash is "a blur".

A woman who needed to be winched out of mud she became stuck in trying to walk across an Auckland estuary says she is embarrassed.

A woman who fell from a deck and injured her leg was airlifted to hospital last night.

"The hero in this story is the truck, that he was able to survive the impact and a fall like that." A driver credits his survival to airbags.

A motorist was moments away from colliding with a truck which smashed through a motorway barrier before plunging at least 15m down a bank this morning.