A horror accident at a North Shore gymnasium which left a school student a quadriplegic came just months after a similar incident in which another teen broke his neck.

The man who dove in to Tauranga Harbour to rescue an unconscious jetskier said it was a "no-brainer" decision to try to help him.

A French family travelling near Mount Cook had to be rescued out the back of their upturned campervan after it flipped in strong winds.

A daredevil jetski rider has a blood clot on the brain after his signature backflip went disastrously wrong as he was thrilling a big crowd at the Tauranga Boat Expo.

Two people were seriously injured after a light plane crashed yesterday afternoon.

An Auckland family are devastated at the death of a man who was struck by a car while lying on an unlit rural road early this morning.

A male pedestrian was hit by a truck and seriously injured on State Highway 1 in Otago last night.

Air NZ will send its third and final flight to Mt Erebus this month - upsetting family members who have missed out.

A teenager faces life as a quadriplegic after a horror accident at a gymnasium. A teenager faces life as a quadriplegic after a horror accident at a gymnasium.

A Bay of Plenty man who died after being crushed underneath his own car as he was working on it has been named.

Police say human error was to blame in three fatalities on roads during the Labour weekend holiday.

A man says he heard "an almighty crack" as he seriously injured his neck while attempting a somersault on a giant inflatable pillow in a bad end to Labour weekend.

A Te Kuiti teen "with a great attitude" died while crossing the Te Kuiti railway line as he went to get help for a friend injured at the nearby skate park.

The driver of a speeding car which caught fire at the end of a bizarre police chase had to turn himself in after dense bush and gorse proved too rough, a witness says.

A teenage boy is dead after he was hit by a train near the Te Kuiti railway station last night, after playing at the local skate park.

A terrifying roller coaster ride in the sky turned Fuzzy Maiava's life upside down. Six years later, the ride goes on.

Two men had lucky escapes after separate accidents in the skies.

A Hollywood actor and director visiting Auckland got more drama than he bargained for when he injured himself running in fear from a clown with a chainsaw.

Commuters in and around Auckland are being urged to show patience as traffic is hindered by several gridlocks.

Two motorcyclists are injured after their vehicles crashed in Taranaki today.

The driver of a car was lucky to escape alive after colliding with a tree this morning.

She has stood on a rake, fallen down stairs, cut her finger cooking and smashed her head on the corner of a window, but Janet Uttinger says she's not accident prone.

The parents of an Auckland woman who died with her partner on a climbing trip to Mt Taranaki have spoken for the first time of the "big gap" left in their lives.

A lumber yard worker has been helicoptered to hospital after being trapped by a forklift in Kawerau this morning.