The mother and sister of a rugby player who died after a head injury at a weekend club game are devastated they did not make it to his bedside to say goodbye.

Two expert reports about an incident in which a wedding guest was run over on a Waikato road were ignored by a police crash analyst, a coroner's inquest has been told.

A man was buried from the waist down inside an underground pipe when the steep dirt walls of a deep trench collapsed around him last night.

A man who came across William Hoskins dying on a rural Waikato road last January says the driver who had run over him "put his foot down" and drove off from the scene.

A 9-year-boy who died when a horse bolted had tied himself to the animal with a rope around his waist, police say.

A 10-year old boy has died after being dragged by a bolting horse just before sunset yesterday.

Potential to kill needs to be addressed, mourning family members insist.

A 10-year-old boy was killed after his horse bolted, dragging him for some distance yesterday.

The trial of a Mosgiel man charged over the death of businessman Allan Hubbard has been adjourned this morning for a new date to be set.

The moments leading up to his plunge from the 15th floor of an Auckland apartment building remain a mystery for English tourist Tom Stilwell.

Police are investigating a fatal car crash near Marton tonight.

A man who saved the life of a toddler trapped in a car submerged in a Nelson river has been hailed as a hero.

You know it's big when they get special graphics made, crashing and zipping across the TV with a flashy soundtrack to match.

Four bystanders plunged into a freezing creek to rescue a family trapped in a submerged car.

A woman has died and two others injured when the car they were in submerged in Saltwater Creek in Nelson.

An American news broadcast were fooled in to announcing the incorrect names of the pilots on board the San Francisco plane crash.

A train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed and crashed into a station outside Paris on the eve of a major holiday weekend.

A woman was lucky to get cellphone reception and call for help after her car became trapped in a Hawkes Bay river yesterday morning.

The president of the company involved in the Canadian rail disaster which has killed 50 is a New Zealand honorary consul in America.

The mystery of why an experienced truck driver plummeted 20m off a Kaingaroa Forest road is unlikely to be solved, a coroner has warned.

A man dived into freezing waters to try to save a friend who was swept away after falling off a Raglan pier.