An 88-year-old man had just walked into his bedroom when a car driven by another elderly man came crashing through the wall, killing him.

The driver of a car which hit a pedestrian in the Waikato on Tuesday night was not to blame for the man's death, police say.

A mother who lost a son in the Air NZ Airbus crash off France is saddened to see blame being meted out to the people involved.

A 13-year-old girl is in hospital with serious leg injuries after she was run over during a street fight involving machetes and golf clubs in Hastings.

Police say they have yet to discover the name and age of a man whose dead body was found by a street cleaner in Hamilton on Sunday morning.

All seven people aboard an Airbus A320 test flight died when it crashed in 2008. Air NZ said it could not confirm a report that an announcement would be made tonight regarding the crash.

A Waitara teenager died in New Plymouth Hospital early this morning after being struck by a van.

A new study has found more than a third of our busiest roads are unsafe, with Auckland and Northland having the most high-risk highways.