Grandma mind the eggnog and little Timmy beware the shiny new skateboard, as Christmas Day is dangerous.

Helicopter crews used night-vision goggles to rescue a man who had a car crash in Waihi.

The families of a crash driver who killed two and injured two others are disgusted he has been released on parole.

Two people have been seriously injured after a head-on smash involving a car and a ute near Thames.

A Matamata pedestrian has had a miraculous escape from serious injury after being hit by a truck this morning.

Motorists should expect delays for the next two hours after two-truck crash injures two.

A man killed when a van and bus collided on a busy road on Auckland's North Shore has been described as a "gentle giant".

Michael Smith is suing Idol producers over an incident that happened as he was getting ready to perform for the judges on a taping of the program.

Power has been fully restored to more than 20,000 homes and businesses in Gisborne tonight, after a 33-hour outage.

Two people have been helicoptered to Auckland Hospital following a two-vehicle crash near Warkworth, north of Auckland, this afternoon.

The woman was flown by rescue helicopter to Wellington Hospital after she was struck by the vehicle.

The theme park reopens today but will it be able to shake off the tragedy that killed four people?

A young man killed in a car accident in the early hours of Thursday had been celebrating his 19th birthday just hours before.

A car has hit a power pole and broken it in two in South Auckland this morning.

Members of the New Zealand public are giving generously to the families of the men who tragically died in a boating accident in Kaipara

Traffic is quickly banking up after a five-car pile up on Auckland's northern motorway.

Police said the single-vehicle crash happened on the corner of Elliot Rd and State Highway 26 south-east of Thames about 2am.

A woman was impaled on a fence post outside an Eden Terrace bar on Wednesday night. She was impaled by the leg near Galbraith's Alehouse

A Dutch rock climber was injured after falling 14m at a popular climbing spot in the South Island this afternoon.

The recovery yesterday of the last of the men lost when a fishing boat capsized on the Kaipara Bar gave some relief to mourners at a memorial service.

A car parked in the driveway was all that saved Sylvia Lawrence when a car smashed through a fence and into the bedroom wall, her daughter says.

A car crash and a bus breakdown has led to traffic crawling through Auckland's central motorway at lunchtime.

A person is in a serious condition after a car crashed into a pole in Cambridge this morning.

A person has died after a car smashed into a home in Tauranga.

An 8-year-old boy was accidentally stabbed in a fall near Ohakuhe this afternoon. The Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter was called

A woman has died at Taipa Beach in the Far North tonight.

In the United States, what happened to Kimi's family has occurred at least 25 times since January 2015.

The family of Brazilian soccer player Neto, one of only six survivors of a plane crash in Colombia, say he had had a dream his airline crashed.

Police have laid charges against the driver whose car plunged off the fifth floor of a central Auckland carpark.

Commuters are facing an arduous Friday night drive home after a crash on Auckland's Harbour Bridge this afternoon.