A young Olympic snowboarding hopeful who was killed in a fiery car crash on Sunday would have celebrated his 18th birthday today.

Witnesses have described a woman's incredible courage after her leg was almost severed by the rear tray of a reversing truck.

Police have admitted they put out incorrect information about an incident where a female pedestrian was hit by a truck outside an Auckland supermarket.

A "bright and talented" teenage snowboarder killed in a fiery car crash was a contender for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

A three-vehicle crash has partially closed a Northland highway this morning after a truck and trailer rolled south of Kawakawa.

A motorcyclist is dead after crashing near Tauranga this afternoon.

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.

Two teenagers are in a serious condition following a two-car head-on collision near Whangarei which also put two others in hospital.

A man injured in a police shooting that killed teen courier driver Halatau Naitoko is suing the Crown for compensation.

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