A car slid 80m before smashing into two cars that had already crashed on a busy highway yesterday, leaving one passenger dead and three others injured.

A new twin-engined air force helicopter will need all its rotors repaired or replaced, at a cost of millions of dollars, after being hit by lightning.

The family of missing Canadian tourist Connor Hayes are coming to NZ next week and hope to hold a memorial in the small South Island town where he was last seen alive.

They never saw it coming. Even if they had, they could never have survived it.

A man received life-threatening back and head injuries after falling from a deck in Auckland last night.

A man died in the Far North after he climbed a power pole and touched wires connected to a 11,000 volt transformer following a fight with his girlfriend.

Last year, almost 1000 Kiwis died suddenly at the hands of others, in crashes or through suicide.

A woman almost killed when she was dragged 60m behind a vehicle in South Auckland was not the victim of a hit-and-run as first suspected.

A two-year-old boy has died in a farm accident inland from Gisborne after falling from a utility vehicle.

One person was seriously injured when a ute and a milk tanker crashed in the Bay of Plenty this morning.

A power cut in Upper Hutt tonight was caused by a car travelling at excessive speed and then crashing in Henry Street, police say.

A 14-year-old boy who died after the 4-wheel-drive vehicle he was in rolled was one of four people killed in crashes over the weekend.

A schoolboy has suffered a horror eye injury after being splashed in the face with acid during a science experiment.

There's not much that's good about tumbling 5m down a blowhole and breaking your pelvis in three places.

A Search and Rescue team made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to save a man who plunged 200m down an icy Mt Cook slope.

A lawyer has won a three-year battle against ACC, which claimed pain she suffered after a car crash was from degeneration and not a neck injury.

Fifteen-year-old Brigitte Allan watched helplessly as her older sister and fellow cyclist Maggie collided with a van during a training ride, followed by four of their friends.

'I've got bruises like tyre marks up my leg," says Guy Speedy, vibrant and laughing just two days after being run over by his own tractor.

Five schoolgirl cyclists injured in a collision with a van north of Hamilton yesterday are at home recovering.