The 8-year-old boy who fell into a geothermal pool as hot as 100C on Boxing Day has died.

The wife of Ross McSheffrey, who was pinned under his own bus yesterday, has paid tribute to his rescuers.

An 8-year-old boy is this morning fighting for his life after falling into a Rotorua geothermal pool as hot as 100C.

A bus driver is in a critical condition after being run over by his own bus, which rolled about 40m after he parked it in gear, outside Waikato Hospital in Hamilton this morning.

An 8-year-old boy suffered horrific burns after falling into a geothermal hot pool in Rotorua.

Drivers appear to be taking more care on the roads over the Christmas period, with police noting a reduction in road crashes this year.

A multi-vehicle pile up in Hawkes Bay has put 10 people in hospital, three with critical injuries, say police. Two tourists, one German and one Italian, are among those injured.

The official holiday road death toll has risen to three after a 17-year-old was killed in a Hawkes Bay crash.

A kiteboarder killed in front of his wife in a Christmas holiday tragedy was lifted 20 metres in the air by a gust of wind - and flung to his death more than a kilometre away.

Police are setting a new trap for speeding drivers who slam on their brakes at the last minute for roadside speed cameras. The point-to-point cameras record the time a car takes to travel between two points.

Kiwi's lax attitude to getting our travel jabs may be killing us.

The family of a father-of-two hit by a car yesterday are grieving for 'a wonderful family man'.

Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run in Manukau early today, which took the holiday road toll to two.

A 2-year-old boy has been flown to hospital with head injuries after plunging two metres from a bridge near a remote cafe in Golden Bay.

The wife of a Tahunanui man was present as he crashed after strong gusts lifted him off the ground this afternoon.