Latu Paasi wiped away tears as she watched the unveiling of her husband and son's headstone yesterday - the first anniversary of their death in a boating tragedy.

The Accident Compensation Corporation's Earners and Work Accounts are now fully funded ACC Minister Judith Collins has told National Party members at their Northern Regional Conference today.

A woman was trapped when the car she was in left the road and crashed into some trees in Hamilton this morning.

A man has been taken to hospital after a collision between a ferry and a water taxi near Princes Wharf at Auckland's waterfront.

A car has crashed through the front door of a petrol station on Auckland's North Shore.

A rail worker who failed to make sure two of his co-workers were off the track before a passenger train passed by, nearly hitting them, was a regular cannabis user, an investigation has found.

Out on an early morning run, Jane Patterson was first on the scene when a car plunged into Auckland's Waitemata Harbour on March 13.

An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a parade in the US, injuring over fifty people.

Two people have been hospitalised after their rally car lost control between Riwaka and Sandy Bay.

An army trainee died when a vehicle he was travelling in crashed with an "almighty bang" into a power pole near Dargaville on Friday night.

A man was killed and four others injured, one critically, when a car hit a power pole in Northland last night.

A 72-year-old suffered serious injuries when his van plunged 150 metres down a bank in Hawkes Bay.

A seriously injured driver lay trapped in his crashed truck across railway lines for more than an hour in Waikato last night.

A man is in hospital after his light truck crashed through a bridge barrier and tumbled four metres onto a stream bank in the Hawkes Bay.

Police need to be able to pursue drivers "otherwise we turn the roads over to the criminals," says New Zealand Police Association vice-president Stuart Mills.

Two people died in a four-car crash in Northland yesterday afternoon during a weekend of road carnage that claimed eight lives.

Was I hit by a car, Mum? Those were the first words Danielle Franklin heard her 9-year-old son say.

Emily Mott woke up feeling dizzy days after falling off a quad bike and hitting her head on a rock while working on a dairy farm near Dannevirke.

A fisherman drowned and a kite-surfer may be lost at sea after two searches off the coast of Taranaki yesterday afternoon.