Police hope to cap the vent shaft at Pike River mine tomorrow after weather conditions at the site prevented the operation from going ahead 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.

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

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.

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.