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![Death-crash driver sobs](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Death-crash driver sobs
A driver ran from his car sobbing and yelling: "I checked the road, I checked and it was clear," witnesses say.
![Death, injuries in Dominon Road crashes](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Death, injuries in Dominon Road crashes
A five car pile-up on Auckland's Dominion Road this morning was later followed by a fatal car-motorcycle crash.
![Second serious Dominion Rd crash](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Second serious Dominion Rd crash
A motorcyclist has been killed in a second crash on Dominion Rd in the central Auckland suburb of Mt Eden today, just hours after a five-car pile-up on the same stretch of road.
![Champion jockey injured in pony fall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Champion jockey injured in pony fall
Top jockey Lisa Cropp was taken to hospital after falling off a pony and becoming trapped underneath.
![ACC's 'flimsy refusals'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
ACC's 'flimsy refusals'
Hundreds of accident victims are being wrongly refused treatment on back, shoulder and knee injuries that are being mislabelled as due to "degenerative" causes, say lawyers.
![Pike River fire fully out - experts](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Pike River fire fully out - experts
The fire which has been raging for days at the Pike River Coal mine is definitely out, say Australians brought in to operate the GAG jet unit which has been pumping carbon dioxide into the mine.
![Pike River staff will be cut - Whittall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Pike River staff will be cut - Whittall
Pike River Coal will have to reduce its workforce when it is ready to re-establish operations, but CEO Peter Whittall says reports of possible receivership were "extremely premature".
![Agony after crash but ACC says 'no'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Agony after crash but ACC says 'no'
A woman whose car was spun across three lanes in an accident on the Southern Motorway has been refused accident compensation for her back injury on the grounds that her spinal problem is "degenerative".
![<i>Eric Thompson:</i> No happy ending for fleeing fools](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
<i>Eric Thompson:</i> No happy ending for fleeing fools
What a great incentive to stop when the police ask you, because if you don't you might die as a result of your own stupidity.