A man who jumped from a cliff towards a water hole and missed has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.

A truck has rolled south of Te Kuiti on SH3 this morning.

A man who crashed his ute on the outskirts of Hamilton this morning could have been trapped for hours if a witness hadn't seen the vehicle career across a paddock and into a creek.

A Go Bus driver who was carrying 19 Bethlehem College students when he collided with a ute on State Highway 2 has been convicted of careless driving and discharged.

A woman died in a head-on smash between people-mover and an articulated truck in Ormond township, near Gisborne, early this morning.

The Westpac Rescue helicopter is on the way to pick up a seriously injured cyclist after a crash involving a car near Whitianga.

The man who was killed when his ute crashed into a tree north of Turangi on Wednesday night has been named by police.

Police have made an urgent appeal about racing cars linked to a crash which killed a Napier teen only hours before she would have started a hairdressing course.

Every time Mosgiel resident Nick Vermeulen looks in the mirror, the consequences of his actions are reflected in the asymmetry of his face.

Police are investigating whether a space-saver wheel played a part in the crash which killed a Rotorua mother.

An elderly woman is in a critical condition at Middlemore Hospital after a car ploughed into the bus shelter she was waiting in with her two grandchildren in Auckland yesterday.

Police have named a man who died after his car plunged more than 150m off a bank in the Marlborough Sounds on Monday.

Carterton schoolgirl Grace Ellen Diedrichs has been remembered as a "happy little girl, smiling all the time" after her tragic death in a train accident.

A young boy is dead after being hit by a car on a residential driveway in Kaipara Flats, Auckland.

The teenage driver of a ute that was hit by a commuter train, killing his 15-year-old passenger, may not be well enough to speak to police for a week or more.

Three quad-bike deaths in Northland in eight weeks will be investigated by a coroner to check for common links that could help prevent similar future fatalities.

A head-on car crash in the Bay of Plenty today killed a woman and left six other travellers, including two children, in hospital.

A plea has gone out for drivers to be cautious at level crossings after a teenager was killed and her 17-year-old driver seriously injured.

The parents of a toddler who were not told he had fallen heavily on his first day of childcare discovered he had a 6cm skull fracture 24 hours later.

Heartfelt messages from friends are reaching out to a grieving expatriate Kiwi man whose son fell into a freezing pond while feeding ducks with his gran.