A 13-year-old girl is dead after she fell off her bike in Papakura and her head hit the concrete. She wasn't wearing a helmet.

A teenager was found dead after being flung from a Mercedes Benz when it crashed off Te Mata Peak in Hawke's Bay yesterday morning.

A man received burns to his arm and leg when the lpg cylinder he was attending to caught fire at the Glendhu Bay Lakeside Holiday Park in central Otago late yesterday morning.

His son was shot dead by an air rifle while drinking alcohol with his friends - but the victim's father says he isn't angry with the teenager who pulled the trigger.

A man has died after a car plunged 150m down Te Mata Peak in Hawkes Bay.

Four of the Bethlehem College students involved in a fatal minibus crash in Kenya have been reunited with family and friends.

Eight people were taken to hospital after a stolen car crashed into another vehicle containing six people near where a police patrol had stopped to speak to a cyclist.

The first members of a Tauranga school group are due home from Kenya today as funeral preparations continue for three of their colleagues killed on the trip.

The terrifying moment when a skateboarder crashed at high speed in front of a car which had been towing him has been caught on film.

Two children and their parents are in hospital after a horrific crash near Taupo.

A rigging supervisor who narrowly escaped death in a helicopter crash is fighting to overturn official findings that hold him partly responsible.

The body of a person, believed to be missing Clutha teenager Blake Sinclair, has been found today.

A courier van lost control and crashed into a barrier on a Hutt Valley motorway this morning.

A 23-year-old farm worker suffered head and chest injuries when his quad bike crashed into a ditch in Marlborough last night.

ACC fraudsters have ripped off taxpayers by more than $10 million in the past four years.

A helicopter has crashed and exploded in a ball of flames in a busy London street during rush hour.

A car seat provided by a rental company saved the life of a three-year-old Australian tourist involved in a crash in Waikato, police say.

A man lay hurt for 17 hours before being found with serious abdominal and pelvic injuries after his quad bike fell on top of him near the edge of a river.

New Zealand's health and safety record has been labelled as 'woeful' and a 'national disgrace' by a consultant with two decades' experience in the sector.

The family of missing teenager Blake Sinclair will carry out their own private search of the Clutha River after the official search was scaled down, police say.