A nine-year-old boy was flown to hospital with minor neck injuries after a quad bike incident in a remote part of the South Island's West Coast.

A grieving mother has urged New Zealand authorities to make roll-bars on quadbikes compulsory.

A 50-year-old Warkworth man suffered burns to much of his body after a backyard fire exploded.

A search is underway for two people aboard a twin-engined aircraft that ditched in the sea off Kawhia at around 12.20pm today after reporting engine failure.

Rabbits weren't the only victims during this year's annual 'Great Bunny Hunt', with one of their hunters accidentally shooting himself today.

Three World War 2 reenactors were burned when a gas canister exploded during an airshow in Blenheim last night.

The Easter holiday road toll has risen to two following a fatal crash north of Taupo early today.

The group leader of a Bay of Plenty college's mission trip to Kenya was asleep when a driver-swap put a teen behind the wheel in a minivan crash that killed four people.

The former Bethlehem College student who was driving the minibus in Kenya which crashed, killing four people, was encouraged to drive.

An Auckland man who gave CPR to a toddler found face down in a hot pool has played down his actions.

Hunting for Easter eggs is coming with a $12.2 million warning this Easter, after nearly 20,000 people injured themselves at the expense of taxpayers last year.

A Northland farmer who campaigned for tractor safety says now is the time to adopt similar procedures to prevent further quad bike deaths.

A man's throat was cut in an accident at a glazing company in Napier yesterday.

Trucks and bikes aren't a very good combination.

A 19-year-old man who rolled his ute called his own ambulance after laying trapped for two hours with spinal injuries.

Two "lucky" women continue to recover in hospital today after surviving a head-on crash involving a convertible Audi on Auckland's Tamaki Drive last night.

A New Zealander rescued from a stricken yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has been left penniless after thieves stripped her vessel when it washed up in Australia.

A teenager killed in a car crash in Papakura has been remembered by grief-stricken friends and his rugby team.

A woman has fed herself and held her children for the first time since a surfing accident left her paralysed.

Police are urging young people to take lessons from the tragedy that killed Cheyenne Hemana, 17, and her two nephews.

The Government's transport safety regulator has finally decided to investigate the train accident that almost killed a young woman in a wheelchair on an Auckland level crossing.

The sister of a woman killed in a cycling accident has made an emotional plea at her funeral for motorists to share the road with cyclists.

Police have confirmed that the driver killed in a crash at Helensville with her young nephews yesterday did not have a licence.

Two children - a baby and an 11-year-old boy - and their young aunt were killed in a crash that also left their 6-year-old sister and a man fighting for their lives.