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

A lawyer has asked for an investigation into a group of doctors he says ACC uses to reject claims due to pre-injury "degenerative" conditions.

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

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.

Top jockey Lisa Cropp was taken to hospital after falling off a pony and becoming trapped underneath.

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 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".

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".

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.