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.

The trial of a Mosgiel man charged over the death of businessman Allan Hubbard has been adjourned this morning for a new date to be set.

The moments leading up to his plunge from the 15th floor of an Auckland apartment building remain a mystery for English tourist Tom Stilwell.

Police are investigating a fatal car crash near Marton tonight.

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.

A woman was lucky to get cellphone reception and call for help after her car became trapped in a Hawkes Bay river yesterday morning.

A man dived into freezing waters to try to save a friend who was swept away after falling off a Raglan pier.

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.

One person has died and two others injured in a single car crash near Gisborne tonight.