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.

Richard Davies blames himself for the crash that killed his father, but says he's not irresponsible behind the wheel.

A driver speeding at 150km/h dropped a hitch-hiker off on the side of the road before continuing to flee police until his car caught fire.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Last Labour Weekend one person was killed on the roads - 16-year-old Ricky Pettigrew. Today, his family have a message for other drivers, especially young people.

Friends of an Auckland couple who died on Mt Taranaki after getting stranded last Labour weekend are set to climb the peak to remember them this weekend.

Paralysed cyclist David Keys has resigned himself to the fact life as he knew it has ended, days after crashing his bike into a sinkhole in Waihi.

The search for a Warkworth fisherman who has been missing for more than a week is continuing.

Relatives of a man who broke his neck riding his bike into a Waihi sink-hole fear he will remain a paraplegic with a slim chance of much rehabilitation.

Two people have been killed in a crash in Southland.

The father of a Christchurch woman killed in a car crash on Friday night says the family are working through their "shock and grief" at the loss of his daughter.

A keen boatie died in a horror towing accident in his driveway on the Kapiti Coast yesterday.

A dog alerted a council worker to a man who was lying seriously injured after riding his bike into a sink hole in Waihi.

An elderly man has been badly burnt on an island off the Bay of Plenty coast today.