A 19-year-old woman is seriously injured after she was crushed against a house by a car in west Auckland last night.

Police are appealing for sightings of a man in the minutes before he was hit by a car in Christchurch tonight.

A cyclist who was knocked over by a passing motorist while riding with a group of friends near Hamilton has died of his injuries.

The survivor of a 13-storey fall from an Auckland city apartment building has been seen out and about just days after he was released from hospital.

It's eight months since a romantic date on the beach turned to chaos for Aucklander Aaron Mitchell, who slipped and fell down a blowhole.

Twice as many people were killed on Auckland's local roads in the first five months of this year as in the same part of 2012.

A Hamilton cyclist was last night battling for his life after an accident with a car that saw him thrown into a windscreen before rebounding back into a group he was riding with.

When a child swallows a battery, it's a race against the clock to diagnose and remove the device before it breaks down inside the body within two hours.

A Dunedin woman was tight-lipped when she rang 111, after mistakenly gluing her lips together.

The widow of a young father killed in a hedge-trimming accident was left wondering how she was going to tell her young son that his "hero" dad wasn't coming home.

Police have named the Culverden man killed in a freak hedge trimming accident in North Canterbury earlier today.

Accidents on the mountains are costing Kiwis a mountain of money, according to latest figures by ACC.

The main highway north of Balclutha remains closed this morning after a head-on crash in which a woman was killed and another seriously injured.

An Auckland roofing company fined $18,000 after a worker seriously hurt himself when he fell from a two-storey building.

A five-year-old girl has been flown to Middlemore Hospital with burn injuries after the dress she was wearing went up in flames when she came too close to a nearby gas heater.

A female wing walker and her stunt pilot were killed when their plane crashed into the ground and exploded into flames.

Broadcaster John Tamihere raced to a fatal car crash in central Auckland yesterday after hearing his wife's son was hurt.

The father of 2-year-old New Zealand triplets who died in a Qatar mall fire just over a year ago has expressed his relief at guilty verdicts in the case.

Motorists driving over the Kaimai Ranges in Bay of Plenty are being urged to take extra care this morning, after a large amount of diesel spilled onto the road.

The father of the British man who stunned the world by surviving a 15-floor fall from an Auckland high rise says the fact his son is still alive is nothing short of a miracle.