Two people escaped serious injury when their car went down a bank on Piha Rd, near Piha, at about 11.50pm yesterday.

One person is dead and another fighting for their life after a car crashed into a bridge in Northland this afternoon.

Five people injured when the vehicle they were in collided with a police car in South Auckland yesterday have been discharged from hospital.

A car went down a bank and hit a tree on Lonely Track Rd in Redvale this morning.

Two people have been seriously injured after a car drove off the third floor of a carpark building in Hamilton.

The mother of teenager killed in a central Auckland car crash at the weekend has told other families to love their children and forgive them.

A 28-year-old farmer has suffered head and back injuries after losing control of a quad bike while moving stock.

Emergency services are attending a crash in South Auckland where a car has reportedly hit a power pole.

A 20-year-old New Zealander's life was "cut short in a terrible car accident" in Queensland.

The man who died in the quad bike crash yesterday was Bruce Murray Stenning, 82, of Auckland.

Police are seeking witnesses to a crash on Whirinaki Rd early today where an elderly man died.

A paraglider pilot injured after crashing into rocks at a New Plymouth beach remains in a stable condition in hospital.

The incident happened near Abattoir Lane just after 2pm.

The man who died after his motorbike and a car collided at an intersection in Waikato is from Hamilton.

A twin boy was killed trying to escape a car as it rolled backwards down a steep farm driveway near Tokoroa, police say.

A spokeswoman for St John said the woman suffered minor injuries and did not need to be admitted to hospital.

Isabel Frances Rivett (nee Jones), 32, has been named as the woman who died in the mountain running tragedy near Otira, West Coast.

The woman and her friends were rope-swinging into a river near Te Kaha when she got caught up in the rope-swing

A young man who died in a crash between a car and a ute over the holidays had a "smile to define the word cheesy", and "endless love and kindness for anyone who needed it".

The woman who survived a horror plunge down an Auckland cliff face along a popular scenic drive suffered broken bones, it has been revealed.

A New Year's Day quad bike crash that left a baby injured and a man on life support has prompted another stern warning around the use of the vehicles.

The young married couple who died after falling on Mount Silberhorn lived for and loved the mountains.

A man is in a critical condition with a head injury and leg fracture after he fell from his bicycle 10m down a bank.

The Volts players wore the arm bands in memory of 12-year-old Jack Martin during yesterday's one-day cricket match against Canterbury in Alexandra.

A Samoan family who moved to New Zealand just weeks ago for a better life are mourning the loss of a son.

The 26-year-old local fell while riding on private property in the settlement of Galatea near Whakatane.

The ambulance arrived to find a man in his 60s with critical injuries. He died at the scene.

It is the second serious incident on the water today, after a 3-year-old boy died at Ocean Beach in Hawkes Bay.

Friends of an Australian woman who died after a fall near Mt Cook have paid tribute to "one of the brightest and singularly most talented artists" they encountered.