The parents of a dead airman were last night delighted by a promise from NZ First that it would establish a Commission of Inquiry into the crash.

The most significant piece of potential wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has been found - and it could change everything.

A skydiver had just been given permission to use modified equipment for her dwarfism plunged to her death when her parachute failed to open properly.

An elderly pedestrian has been seriously injured after he was struck by a vehicle in South Auckland this morning.

A dump truck filled with soil has crashed backwards down a bank crashing into a parked car.

A person has died in a serious crash between a campervan and car south of Thames this morning.

A pleasure boat with 142 passengers on board crashed into a pier on the River Thames after a fire broke out in its engine room.

One person has been critically injured in a crash this evening.

A child remains in a critical condition after a farmbike crash yesterday.

A mourning family is preparing for the possibility the man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash which killed Dunedin man Riley Baker may never serve prison time.

Tauranga motorcyclist Rhys Middleton was killed by an overseas driver. Now his mother is campaigning for a change in the law allowing visitors to drive in NZ.

A woman has died following a crash on State Highway 2 at the intersection of Hebden Crescent, Lower Hutt.

A 26-year-old woman remains in a critical condition in Auckland Hospital's ICU today following a head on crash in Pokeno yesterday.

Mediaworks journalist Karen Rutherford has spoken out for the first time since she was hit by a car while horse riding.

The family of a London-based Kiwi woman who died after fracturing her skull in a cycling accident say they are struggling with the loss.

Firefighters in the wider Wellington area were kept busy today with two car accidents.

A 33-year-old mother has died while rescuing her two-year-old son who had fallen into a lake in Utah from a boat they were travelling in.

More than 200 Kiwi kids under 10 have been injured while riding all-terrain vehicles in the previous two years - to the cost of $81,880.

The crash has closed part of a motorway off-ramp, Nielsen Street and Onehunga Mall; causing significant traffic delays.

The little boy killed in a quad bike accident at the weekend loved motorbikes and would ride circuits around the family's rural property.

Actor James Rolleston remains in a stable condition in a ward in Waikato Hospital after a horror car crash nearly a month ago.

A severed limb was spotted this week floating not far from the Olympics sailing venue in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay.

A woman is injured after two cars collided in Dunedin.

A newborn baby has been flown to hospital with serious head injuries.

Young football players witnessed the accident that killed a popular and respected parent.

One of the three young girls who fell 12 metres from a faulty Ferris wheel in Tennessee has opened up about the terrifying ordeal.

A couple travelling in convoy were involved in a four-car crash in Dunedin.

A motorcyclist was critically injured in a crash with a car in Otago this afternoon.

An elderly woman has died following a two-car crash in Whangarei yesterday.

More than 20 passengers were injured in severe turbulence that saw them slam into overhead lockers as their plane "dropped like an out of control elevator."