Police have released the name of a man who died after his quad bike rolled down a steep bank on his farm north of Auckland yesterday.

A mother whose son died after he was run over on a rural Waikato road says the driver responsible has yet to say he's sorry for what happened.

Skiers and older people are most at risk of injury, according to the first geographical breakdown of New Zealand accident statistics.

A motorist who drove over a pedestrian on a rural road didn't return to check what he had hit because he thought somebody else was taking care of it, an inquest has heard.

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 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.

Police have released the name of the 9-year-old boy who died after being dragged by a bolting horse in Northland on Saturday.

Four people were injured, two seriously, when two cars collided in Lower Hutt this afternoon.

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.

Police are investigating a fatal car crash near Marton tonight.

An elderly man has been flown to hospital after he tripped at his Hawkes Bay home and fell through a plate glass window.

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.