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Kids' scooter injuries skyrocket
The number of children seriously hurt while riding push scooters has skyrocketed with their popularity. More than 6000 under-14s were injured last year.
The number of children seriously hurt while riding push scooters has skyrocketed with their popularity. More than 6000 under-14s were injured last year.
An alleged drink driver has struck and injured two young girls while reversing from a driveway in the Bay of Plenty.
Two people were injured as a car was crushed between two buses in an Auckland suburb this morning.
A rescue is underway in Northland after a tractor went down a bank near Maungaturoto.
Ship crews must decide on an agreed common language to avoid lapsing into their native tongue during an emergency, says an inquiry into the grounding of a vessel in Tauranga.
A driver in a crash that killed a young Otago man has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail and disqualified from driving for four years.
A grieving mother has made an emotional plea to a mystery motorist linked to the crash that killed her teenage daughter.
A young Snow Planet employee was taken to hospital after spending an hour trapped in a machine with his arm caught in a conveyer belt.
Families of Pike River mine victims say they will ensure that recommendations from the health and safety taskforce are acted on.
Two of New Zealand's top musicians are mourning a relative who died after being knocked down at a dangerous Auckland road crossing on her way to a karaoke club night.
An independent taskforce review of NZ's workplace health and safety has recommended sweeping changes, and says the current system has "significant weaknesses''.
A man has told of a teenage boy's desperate attempts to get help for his girlfriend who died when the car they were in crashed this morning.
More than a third of farm fatalities involve quad bikes, and the number of injuries from quad bikes is increasing at an "alarming'' rate, according to a new study.
The owners of a house where a deck collapsed, sending about 20 people and a hot barbecue plummeting to the ground, say it was lucky no one was killed.
A young girl was plucked from certain death as Indian student Daksh Modasia drowned after wading into a deadly hole at Hunua Falls.
Safety is being reviewed at Hunua Falls following the death of a tourist at the Auckland beauty spot yesterday.
A 20-year-old tourist has drowned at an Auckland beauty spot. The Indian national was attempting to cross the front of the Hunua Falls, south-east of Auckland.
Two people have suffered moderate injuries after their vehicle crashed in Northland this morning, trapping one of the occupants.
A refrigerated truck and trailer carrying meat and vegetables has rolled in south Otago, blocking State Highway 1.
Thinking her husband was dead, Nina Bartlett scrambled out of bed to get to her newborn baby seconds after a stolen car ploughed through their bedroom at 150km/h.
A stolen car sought by police in connection with an assault ploughed into a large road sign pole in Hamilton, critically injuring a teenager.
A 20-year-old has drowned at an Auckland beauty spot this afternoon.