A Korean man has died tramping on the Milford Track.

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 Australian soldier who died after being struck by a truck and trailer on Saturday, February 16, has been named.

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.

Martin lies in agony, his clavicle broken and three fingers mangled beyond recognition. He has no idea what is about to happen.

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.