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.

Soup, slippers, umbrellas, heaters and firewood aren't as comforting on a cold winter's day as you'd like, with all also contributing to nasty injuries, ACC warns.

The wreckage of a car crash that killed 18-year-old Oliver Steven Mills lay unnoticed for up to nine hours in a water-filled ditch early yesterday morning.

A young Briton who survived a fall from the 15th floor of an Auckland city apartment block is expected to make a full recovery.

A crash on Auckland's Southern Motorway has killed a man and caused chaos for commuters.

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after falling from the 15th floor of an Auckland apartment building because he had locked himself out, police say.

Kerre McIvor loves seeing kids going to school on their scooters. It looks like such fun, such a kid thing to do.

A shearing worker is thought to have severed an artery in his arm after a sheep kicked out a glass window and he cut himself.

A horrific car accident killed Richard Todd's wife and left both his daughters injured - one so severely doctors warned him she may never recover.

A two-year-old child drowned in a hole containing water on a rural property near Gore yesterday afternoon.

Three Canadian men who were in a plane that crashed into one of Antarctica's highest mountains have officially been pronounced dead by a NZ coroner.

Three American students killed when their van rolled near Turangi last year could be alive today if they had been wearing seatbelts, an inquest has heard.

A year after the Turangi crash that killed three US students, its most scarred survivor remains determined to return to thank those who saved her life.

The widow and mother of multi-millionaire Michael Erceg have gone to court in a dispute over the liquor tycoon's estate.

Quad bike-related claims cost the Government nearly $12 million last year and, despite extended safety campaigns, riders continue to die.

Police have named a Timaru man who was crushed to death by his car while trying to remove the oil filter.

Provincial authorities in Thailand have shut down a biomass power plant following the deaths of Michael Coppins and a Thai colleague.

A man watched his brother plunge 50m on to rocks in a paragliding accident at a west Auckland beach yesterday.

The man who crashed into and killed a TV3 staff member was two times over the legal blood alcohol limit, police allege.

Charlotte Christie fears driving along the winding Gisborne-to-Wairoa road after writing off her car in a pile-up on a blind bend in which another motorist lost an arm.

A Herald analysis of Transport Agency data collected from 67 districts has revealed the deadliest parts of the country in terms of personal risk to road users.