Miraculously, the driver of a car that collided with a train near Wanganui walked away uninjured...

A quick-thinking young boy - described as a 'tough little nut' - kept calm and pulled his badly injured sister from beneath a crashed ute after her head had become trapped.

Amputee Diane Smith has received an apology from the ACC after being called 'completely deranged'

Scientist Robbie Price has lost 10 years of his life after a cycle crash last Monday caused severe amnesia - wiping memories of his two sons' childhoods and how to do his job.

Rail bosses say the platform at the scene of a fatal accident wasn't designed for passenger trains.