Two men suffered broken bones when a small plane crashed into a paddock north of Christchurch yesterday.

A truck driver who died after his vehicle collided with a train had earlier told a colleague how he was looking forward to playing with his children at the end of the day.

Recently promoted Luke MacKenzie was not supposed to be on the early morning shift at Air NZ and was driving to work to cover for a colleague who had called in sick.

An advertisement in which police falsely accused a truck driver of causing a crash is unlikely to cause widespread offence, the ASA rules.

It was every parent's worst nightmare; news their child has died while travelling on the other side of the world, their rented campervan swept off the road during a powerful storm.

Stewart and Sonja Goodsir were on the water heading home after a day's fishing when they noticed the smoke.

A motorcyclist is appalled a heartless thief stole her bike and rode off as she lay badly injured on the road after crashing into a 4WD.

The company responsible for a high ropes course where an Auckland man died has been fined $24,500 and ordered to pay the man's family $80,000 reparation.

A young Canadian couple were killed when their campervan was swept off the road by the second landslide to hit the road they were on, an inquest has ruled.

One person has died tonight after a car crash just south of Tokoroa on State Highway 1.

A man has died after falling nine metres down a river bank while climbing a swing rope near Palmerston North tonight.

Witnesses have described a woman's incredible courage after her leg was almost severed by the rear tray of a reversing truck.

Police have admitted they put out incorrect information about an incident where a female pedestrian was hit by a truck outside an Auckland supermarket.

A "bright and talented" teenage snowboarder killed in a fiery car crash was a contender for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

A three-vehicle crash has partially closed a Northland highway this morning after a truck and trailer rolled south of Kawakawa.

A motorcyclist is dead after crashing near Tauranga this afternoon.

A young mother was killed in front of her 2-year-old son in an accident that left her trapped in the doors of a lift in a block of flats in Moscow.

A Napier primary school is cracking down on scooter safety after one of their 6-year-old students lost an eye in an accident at home.

After the Accident Compensation Corporation refused to pay for treating some of her injuries, Yahaloma Hochman feels her life is no longer worth living.

After what Geoff Purcell has been through, you might think he wouldn't be heading out for any last-minute practice rides before this year's Colville Connection on the Coromandel.