A truck carrying eggs has crashed into a ditch on State Highway two at Waipukurau.

A road worker who died after he was run over by a tarseal spraying truck north-east of Hamilton on Thursday was today named by police as Graham Donald Bennie, 55, of Huntly.

A car has burst into flames after crashing in Napier, leaving one person fighting for their life.

Police are investigating a fatal crash in the Christchurch suburb of Linwood, which claimed the life of a motorcyclist.

Police have named a Sydney woman who died after falling over 400 metres down a slippery ice face in the Fiordland National Park. She had planned to celebrate her 39th birthday. It was left to rescuers to tell the woman's husband of her fate

An Aussie man who fell 40m down a slippery ice face with his wife while climbing in the Fiordland National Park....

Little Leah Ranapia survived a three-storey plunge with only cuts and bruises, thanks to the garden bushes that broke her fall.

A father of two young kids was killed in a motorcycle accident just minutes from his workplace. His co-worker found him...

Two women who were killed in a high-speed crash north of Auckland yesterday can now be named.

Two cars involved in a double fatal accident north of Auckland yesterday hit each other at a combined speed of about 200kmh, killing two young women, say police.