Inner-city Auckland traffic was brought to a virtual standstill after a motorway crash - gridlock that the Automobile Association described as the worst it had seen.

The teen girl behind the wheel of a car that crashed during a police pursuit has been discharged from hospital while one of her passengers fights for her life.

In their final moments, two teenage sisters sat together in the back of a speeding car on their way to a family cemetery - one pleading with the driver to slow down.

"Alcohol-fuelled madness" on a Tauranga road led to the deaths of two young teens on Christmas Day 2011, a court has been told.

The family of a young wheelchair-bound woman who was struck by a train in Auckland last week have praised those who put themselves in danger to save her life.

Two of four teenage girls involved in a crash during a police pursuit late on Sunday remain in a critical condition in Auckland City Hospital.

Adam Strange's closest friends and family said goodbye with a bang at sunset last night, echoing a cheeky joke of long ago.

Police say they are "comfortable" with the actions of officers involved in a one-minute pursuit that resulted in four teenage girls fighting for their lives in hospital.

An RNZAF officer has been charged over the fatal Iroquois crash at Pukerua Bay on Anzac Day 2010.

A wife watched in horror her husband fell 14 metres to his death from a high-ropes adventure course near Auckland yesterday.

Screams of "I can't feel my legs ... I'm going to die" were heard by a witness shortly after a crash in Kohimarama involving four teen girls who fled a police stop.

Rescue helicopters were kept busy over the weekend with five people in four separate incidents being helicoptered to hospital.

The flight training industry stands on the threshhold, says Lyn Neeson: either tighten regulations now or lose more of the country's finest young pilots.

Captain Ravendra Pal Singh, convicted of assaulting two student pilots in a cockpit 1500ft above the ground, compares himself to Jesus Christ.

Rail workers were yesterday fixing crossings after a wheelchair-bound woman was nearly killed after a wheel on her chair became jammed.

More than 120 young people were caught driving illegally during a week-long police campaign targeting high schools.

A man is dead and three people - including two children - are in hospital in a stable condition following a bus crash in Manurewa yesterday.

One person has been killed and three people injured in a bus crash in Auckland this afternoon.

The wife of a Wellington man charged with careless driving, resulting in the death of their unborn baby, is devastated about the charges and does not want court action to continue, a court was told today.

A mother has told of the moment she saw her 8-year-old son lying under his motorbike with a large branch sticking out of his thigh.

A coroner says it will be a "massive task" to piece together what happened in a fatal mid-air crash which killed two teenagers and a helicopter pilot in 2008.

A woman was killed on a Waikato farm yesterday when the vehicle she was driving rolled down a bank.

An advocate for disabled people says the Auckland train crossing where a wheelchair-bound woman nearly died was in "an appalling state" and has detailed another near-miss.

A wheelchair-bound woman who was hit by a freight train in Auckland remains in a critical condition following a desperate rescue attempt.