A school principal prevented a likely fatal accident by jumping into a 29-tonne truck veering across State Highway 1 after its driver had passed out at the wheel.

After the Accident Compensation Corporation refused to pay for treating some of her injuries, Yahaloma Hochman feels her life is no longer worth living.

After what Geoff Purcell has been through, you might think he wouldn't be heading out for any last-minute practice rides before this year's Colville Connection on the Coromandel.

'I've been sleeping.' 10-year-old cyclist Samantha Robertson is aware of how close she came to death in a crash with a car that left her in an induced coma.

A French tourist has admitted her role in a car crash that claimed the life of an unborn child on Sunday night.

A pensioner has appeared in court charged in connection with an accident in which a little boy was killed in a lawnmowing accident in Hastings.

The driver of the truck that collided with a school bus this morning has been taken to Tauranga Hospital.

A father frantically smashed car windows to get to his young children after the vehicle, which he had been following, crashed head-on with a truck.

A young couple are in hospital after a horrific car accident that killed their unborn baby and left the mother fighting for her life.

One person has died after a collision between a car and truck on State Highway 2 near Mangatawhiri, just south of Auckland, tonight.

The unborn child of a woman who was seriously injured in a car crash in Whangarei last night has died.

Call for course funding as toddlers' safety skills improve with nine-week programme.

A 10-year-old who crashed her bike into a car has shown the first signs of recovery after a week in a coma.

After falling down a 10m deep sinkhole and landing on the remains of dead animals, Jill Clendon's first thoughts focused on whether she had broken any bones.

A woman trapped in a cave on the Takaka Hill near Nelson has been rescued. She had activated an emergency locator beacon after falling in part of the Ngarua Caves about 11am.

A spate of near-collisions between motorists and trains at level crossings have prompted a warning to drivers.

The trailer was packed, the wife and kids were waiting in the car and Mike Moth needed to run inside to get one last thing.

The most expensive claim filed with the Accident Compensation Corporation for an injury suffered around the home has cost taxpayers more than $1 million.

Particulates from the mystery object which killed a driver last year are now being studied by Otago University researchers after ESR tests weren't definitive.

A girl who crashed into a car as she rode her bike south of Auckland on Thursday is a "free and strong spirit" who is giving herself every chance of pulling through, her father says.