Police are still in the dark as to what caused a Dutch visitor to lie down on a dimly-lit Wanaka road before he was run over by a taxi and killed last weekend.

A 17-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries in a crash in the Hawkes Bay this morning.

A 51-year-old man died after being flung into the path of an oncoming vehicle in a crash in Waikato over the weekend.

A girl whose thumb was left dangling from her hand after a freak washing machine accident has a crack surgical team - and leeches - to thank for saving the digit.

A woman was critically injured when she rode her bike into a concrete wall on a steep Wellington hill this morning.

A worker whose angle grinder kicked back and gouged his face is lucky to be alive, rescuers say.

As an inquest begins into the death of Rutger Hale from a mystery object that smashed through his car windscreen, his family say they believe someone knows what happened.

A Dutch pedestrian killed when he was hit by a taxi in Wanaka at the weekend may have been lying on the road at the time, police say.

A family had just finished saying grace at an 80th birthday when the deck they were on collapsed in West Auckland yesterday afternoon.

A young woman suffered numerous injuries when she was pinned by a vehicle that crashed in Manawatu yesterday.

The father of a young British backpacker who plunged to her death during a quad bike tour at Waitomo is pleased New Zealand tourism operators will be audited.

Three teenagers have been seriously injured after an explosion was sparked when a cigarette was lit while they were inhaling butane gas in a South Auckland house.

A teenager who died in an early morning crash on Monday was one of two siblings in the car - and his mother had to break the news to his brother in hospital.

Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has left a Swiss hospital and will continue his treatment at home.

Two bloodied and panicked teenagers stumbled from a car wreck moments after a crash killed their 14-year-old mate, pleading, "Please help, please help."

A 14-year-old boy who died when a car crashed into a power pole on Te Atatu Peninsula this morning, injuring two 16-year-olds, has been named.

One person is dead after a vehicle rolled in Waikato this morning.

A 14-year-old girl was injured when the vehicle she was in rolled near Takaka overnight.

A deer hunter has been hospitalised after his quad bike rolled and crushed him in remote forest overnight.

The worst-hit victim of the Eden Park fireworks debacle is now too scared to watch games live and is suffering "mental stress".

New Zealanders are safety conscious when it comes to seatbelts, a recent survey shows.

Two abandoned Christchurch houses have been seriously damaged in suspicious fires early today.

An elderly Tauranga man has died after being pinned between a car and a wall at his Greerton property.

A surgeon at Waikato Hospital was surprised to find a patient he was treating in the emergency department was the man he trained under nearly 20 years ago.