A group of children say they are grateful to their elderly school bus driver who managed to pull over safely after he was hit by a metal pole that flew through the windscreen.

The military inquiry into the firefight in Afghanistan that left two soldiers dead is unlikely to be made public, the New Zealand Defence Force says.

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Hanging from a fence while a metal spike was embedded 11.5cm into his leg, 20-year-old builder's apprentice Adrian Davids tried not to panic.

An adventure course where an Auckland grandfather fell to his death remains closed and there is no plan set for reopening.

A man was impaled on a metal fence for 40 minutes in Beach Haven, Auckland as he tried to climb over it to visit his friends.

The father of a disqualified driver who died in a high-speed collision yesterday is urging youngsters to report their mates if they are driving illegally.

A man is in critical condition after his campervan collided with a trailer on a bridge north of Auckland this afternoon. Both lanes remain closed to traffic.

A cyclist was lucky to escape serious injury today after a collision with a bus in central Wellington.

The driver of a car which collided head-on with a ute on a Tauranga road, killing two teenage sisters, says the crash will stay with him for the rest of his life.

More than half of motorcycle and scooter users are ignoring warnings about wearing safety gear, risking horrific preventable injuries, experts say.

A man was killed in a quad bike crash in Waikato on Tuesday; the latest in a string of quad bike deaths which have frustrated the chief coroner.

A mother accused of racing with two others moments before her daughters were killed in a crash has admitted she was speeding - but still denies being in a race.