Police are investigating the death of a young man who fell from the balcony of a Wellington city apartment today.

ACC's medical advisers are not being held properly accountable, a lawyer says.

The majority of miners remaining at Pike River Coal mine look set to lose their jobs, as officials today told workers they were going to proceed with redundancies three weeks after a series of explosions killed 29 workers inside the mine.

One of the men injured in an electrical explosion in west Auckland today is about to be discharged from hospital, while the other remains in hospital with minor burns to one of his hands.

Two men working on an underground cable have been injured in an electrical explosion in west Auckland, one of them seriously.

A driver ran from his car sobbing and yelling: "I checked the road, I checked and it was clear," witnesses say.

A five car pile-up on Auckland's Dominion Road this morning was later followed by a fatal car-motorcycle 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.

A man faces a charge of driving while incapable after crashing into several parked vehicles near a busy Auckland intersection today.