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.

Today is a special day for a little boy who has miraculously emerged from the aftermath of a car fire that nearly took his life.

Riandri De Bruyn will never forget the night of the crash. She and her friends were at a party in Auckland's Glen Innes, at the home of a friend of Riandri's older brother, Chris.

A serious crash has injured two people - one critically - and closed part of State Highway 1 just north of Warkworth.

When Jamie Trower took a wrong turn on Mt Ruapehu as a 9-year-old, his life became a complex mix of medical jargon and rehab.

Novice urges snow-lovers to take more care after brush with death on Mt Ruapehu.

An inquest into the death of a rally car driver has begun in Christchurch this morning.

"I was told I wouldn't get those sensations back." Gaining some feeling in his lower body has given quadriplegic Kiwi wakeboarder Brad Smeele hope.

Kiwi wakeboarder Brad Smeele has taken a "huge step" in his recovery, after being rendered quadriplegic in a devastating accident in the United States.

Lynda Veth scalped herself in a freak home accident - by tripping over her dog in the dark and cracking her head open on a door frame.

A woman has admitted causing the death of popular Auckland business leader Chris Heilbronn in a road smash.

Several All Black fans were injured after being struck by a stray firework at Eden Park tonight.

One of the individuals behind the Ice Bucket Challenge to support Lou Gehrig's disease research has died in a diving accident.

Jerome Box was tragically killed when the helicopter he was in crashed into Mt Alta.

A meat worker who took a hook through his head from behind was dragged with the chain, as his workmate rushed to stop the machine.

A man is in a stable condition today after being impaled through his head by a hook on a piece of equipment at a Bay of Plenty meat works yesterday.

Emergency services are working to free a man impaled on a spreader at a meat processing plant in Bay of Plenty.