Terrified school children screamed and cried as their bus collided with a car, its windscreen shattered and it began to fill with smoke.

A photographer killed when he was struck by steam train may have thought the engine was further away because his perception had been skewed by his camera, a friend says.

It was truly miraculous that a series of accidents involving some 130 cars on a fog-shrouded bridge in Kent did not result in deaths, British police said.

As Father's Days go, Robyn Cameron cannot remember one more low-key, or more precious.

Thousands of New Zealand cars have such poor rear visibility that drivers cannot see a small child unless the kid is standing more than 10m away from the vehicle.

A man is dead after being hit by a stream train while trying to photograph it yesterday. The taken to Greymouth Base Hospital with serious head injuries after the accident.

A member of a rugby team is being hailed as a heroine after she saved the life of a man seriously injured in one of three crashes that caused chaos on State Highway 1 yesterday.

Hugh Foster faces an eight-week hospital stay after two alleged bank robbers in a stolen car smashed into the back of his ute on the Southern Motorway.

Sitting next to his dead colleague as their work van started filling with water after plunging off a bridge, Ashley Donkersley thought he was going to die.

A motorist temporarily blinded by sun-strike crashed into the back of a slow moving truck and trailer unit today, leaving him with spinal injuries and lacerations.

Police are at the scene of a two car crash near Hamurana on the outskirts of Rotorua where one person had to be cut free of the wreckage.

Two women are dead after separate crashes on one South Island alpine highway yesterday.

A woman is dead and five others injured after a van rolled some 30m down a bank onto train tracks in the central South Island this morning, police say.

Two people are dead after the van they were in left the road north-west of Auckland early this morning.

When you find out someone you love is hurt, the world contracts itself inwards. In that instant, the only thing that matters is the crisis unfolding before you. Nothing existed before it.

Two men, including a police officer, who dove into icy waters to help rescue a passenger from a Tauranga Bridge plunge have spoken about their ordeal.

A bus carrying 27 passengers rolled last night as its driver apparently tried to avoid a truck, leaving six people in hospital.

No-one came to 72-year-old Don Powle aid when he slipped and broke his arm outside the bustling Britomart Train Station in Auckland - an example of the 'bystander effect'.

This is the story of New Zealanders Marty Schmidt and his son Denali, who died trying to summit the world's most dangerous mountain.

Images from Marty and Delani Schmidt's attempted climb of K2.

A man was rushed to hospital with serious head injuries after he fell up to 9m through the roof of a factory at the Port of Tauranga last night.

The pregnant partner of a man killed when his van plunged off a highway bridge in Tauranga will remember him as the "best kind of dad".