A woman has driven a car off the edge of a multi-storey car park in Melbourne, falling up to six floors to the ground.

A woman who happened across a fatal road accident in west Auckland yesterday discovered the dead man was her partner.

Jo Knowsley investigates the truth behind this week's sensational story from Piha beach.

An Australian man has been hospitalised with a fractured leg after a rock crashed into him while he was hiking on Mt Ngauruhoe in the Tongariro National Park today.

Kiwi singer Don McGlashan has three broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a punctured lung after crashing into a car door that opened in front of him as he was cycling to his Auckland home.

Police have named one of two men who died in a horrific crash near Oamaru in north Otago this morning.

The son of former Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast has passed away this morning 10 days after being seriously injured in a riding accident.

A man is dead and another is in a critical condition after a horrific crash north of Palmerston, Otago, this morning.

A 33-year-old man was killed and another seriously injured when their boat crashed into a rock near Blanket Bay in Doubtful Sound this morning, police believe.

A 33-year-old man has died and another man is seriously injured after a boating incident in Fiordland this morning.

Witnesses have described desperate attempts to save the motorists involved in a fiery crash in Napier yesterday morning.