'Miracle' recovery stuns surgeons who removed a wooden stake from man's shoulder.

One Canadian tourist is dead and another seriously injured after a car and truck collided near Hamilton today.

One person is dead after a truck and trailer unit rolled north of Waiouru in the central North Island late last night.

An Anglican minister is questioning police inaction against one of their own after his son was severely injured by a 4WD driven by an off-duty officer.

There are unconfirmed reports a car which crashed near Foxton yesterday killing two people may have earlier been racing another vehicle.

Police have named two people killed in a Waikato crash yesterday and are warning the public not to interfere with accident scenes.

As Louise Reichenbach lay trapped and dying in a crashed car yesterday, she asked friends to tell her younger sister Tammy she was sorry for a fight they had had the previous day and that she "loved her very much".

A horror head-on collision near Karapiro yesterday afternoon left two people dead in a car which was crushed against a bank.

Two people are dead and five others have been taken to hospital after a vehicle carrying seven people rolled this morning near Foxton.