A quick-thinking hero who pulled a driver from a fiery crash which claimed the lives of two people, including a baby, said the man stank of alcohol and didn't know what day it was.

Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend today's funeral service for a teenager killed in a speedway accident over Easter Weekend.

Guy Sainsbury came across a group of people who had seen a vehicle 80m down a bank, and decided to look around the area himself.

The funeral for a teenage driver killed in a speedway crash in Northland will be held at her home track in Mt Maunganui.

Mt Maunganui's Wilhelmus Peters has been getting mail and phone calls for the NZ First leader since the change of Govt two years ago.

Telecom shares sank to new a low on the NZ sharemarket today, while rises in Fletcher Building, Contact Energy and other leaders helped carry the market higher.

Twelve people will face drugs charges after heavily armed police raided Tauranga properties over the past four days.

A couple in a vintage Model T Ford fell backwards off a three-storey-high cliff as fellow car club members watched in horror.