Pranks can be fun and cause some great laughs at the time - but they can also go horribly wrong and end in serious or harmul consequences.

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.

Five people were taken to hospital after a crash in Kaiapoi, Canterbury, 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.

People with chronic health conditions cost the accident compensation system 59 per cent more than healthy people without those conditions, researchers have found.

Peter Larmer's quiet Sunday at home on his Levin farm was shattered when a car crashed through two fences and a verandah post, and came to rest upside down on his lawn.

Alzheimer's sufferer Jie Rong Luo had a habit of wandering off on her own - so when her family put her in a rest home they asked that she not be left alone outside.

A woman suffered serious injuries when her car crashed down a 30-metre bank and landed in a swamp in South Taranaki.

A 24-year-old woman has died after being hit by a car in Wellington in the early hours of this morning.