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Toddler dies after being hit in driveway

A two-year-old boy died after being hit by a vehicle in a driveway in Papakura, an incident believed to have happened at the home of the toddler's grandparents.

Drink led to crash victim drowning

Two left critical after collision in Waikato

Two year-old boy run over

Hunter admits fatal shooting

Forestry worker hospitalised after log accident

A forestry worker has been airlifted from a remote spot in Marlborough after being hit by a log.

Crash survivor: 'I'm going to be okay'

Covered in blood and glass, George Jones kept telling himself "I'm going to be okay" as firemen worked to free him from his mangled vehicle.

Airbags can't replace belt

Sydney girl impaled on fence

Slow down, say 6 year old's family

School calls for action on boilers

Boy hit in road games

A young boy is nursing bruises and grazes after he was clipped by a car while playing a deadly game of chicken as he waited for a school bus.

Cyclist hospitalised after crash

Safety swoop shuts building sites

More than half of home building sites inspected in a safety clampdown have been closed or ordered to stop dangerous practices.

Big jump in elderly road casualties

A surge in the number of older people being killed or seriously injured on the roads is being blamed on their fragility and New Zealand's ageing population.

Injured man keen to thank mystery hero

A man who chipped his spine and broke his pelvis after falling into a blowhole on Auckland's west coast hopes to contact the mystery hero who saved his life.