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.

A car smashed through a fence into a suburban house early this morning.

A caravan has rolled over and crashed on a motorway today.

A teenage worker remains in hospital after being seriously injured when he was hit by a digger bucket yesterday.

The death of a NZ lawyer in London from a falling shop sign was an accident "waiting to happen" because the sign was not properly secured, inquest hears.

A Hamilton man who was electrocuted at a Northland camping ground yesterday was an incredible young man, who had time for anyone, a friend says.

A man killed by a steam train did not realise how close it was because he was looking at it through a camera lens.

A Hamilton man has died at a Northland campground after being electrocuted when he tried to cut the power of a noisy caravan.

The engine of a skydiving plane, which is suspected to have failed over Lake Taupo, will be sent to Canada this week for analysis.

Road diversions are in place following a three-car crash which left two people injured in Paeroa.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush has admitted there was some confusion around police’s summer road safety campaign.

Camilla's younger brother died after a night of drinking champagne and whisky, an inquest has been told.

A New Zealander who fell down a 9m hole in China and broke his back has released a video game inspired by the almost-fatal experience.

The boy who died in a go-karting crash on Ninety Mile Beach at the weekend was Rowan Willis from Auckland.

The Police Minister has admitted he had concerns over the summer speed enforcement message before it went public, saying it was confusing and ambiguous.

A farmer who went missing yesterday has been found dead in a drain on a rural road following a quad bike crash, just 600m from his home.

A boy who died in a go-karting crash on Ninety Mile Beach at the weekend has been named by police.

Three people have walked away uninjured following a smash which left two cars on their sides in Waikato today.

The Coastguard and police are unimpressed with an ill-equipped boatie rescued today after going missing in a small boat.

The name of a Scottish man of who died in a car crash on Friday has been released.

A 9-year-old boy has died following an accident on a motorised go cart in the Far North this afternoon.

A Scottish tourist was killed and his wife and daughter seriously injured in a car crash near Havelock North.

Generous friends and supporters of a young mother who lost her partner in a motorbike crash have taken like “wildfire” to an online fund established for the mum and her baby.

The pilot of a skydiving plane which suffered a suspected engine failure over Lake Taupo was on his first day of flying unsupervised when he made the call to abandon the aircraft.

Road crashes do not discriminate. They claim the lives of children, the elderly, mothers-to-be, teenagers, tourists, drunks, speedsters and sometimes whole families.