A train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed and crashed into a station outside Paris on the eve of a major holiday weekend.

A woman was lucky to get cellphone reception and call for help after her car became trapped in a Hawkes Bay river yesterday morning.

The president of the company involved in the Canadian rail disaster which has killed 50 is a New Zealand honorary consul in America.

The mystery of why an experienced truck driver plummeted 20m off a Kaingaroa Forest road is unlikely to be solved, a coroner has warned.

A man dived into freezing waters to try to save a friend who was swept away after falling off a Raglan pier.

A 19-year-old woman is seriously injured after she was crushed against a house by a car in west Auckland last night.

Police are appealing for sightings of a man in the minutes before he was hit by a car in Christchurch tonight.

The survivor of a 13-storey fall from an Auckland city apartment building has been seen out and about just days after he was released from hospital.

It's eight months since a romantic date on the beach turned to chaos for Aucklander Aaron Mitchell, who slipped and fell down a blowhole.

When a child swallows a battery, it's a race against the clock to diagnose and remove the device before it breaks down inside the body within two hours.

A Hamilton cyclist was last night battling for his life after an accident with a car that saw him thrown into a windscreen before rebounding back into a group he was riding with.

One person has died and two others injured in a single car crash near Gisborne tonight.

A Dunedin woman was tight-lipped when she rang 111, after mistakenly gluing her lips together.

The widow of a young father killed in a hedge-trimming accident was left wondering how she was going to tell her young son that his "hero" dad wasn't coming home.

Accidents on the mountains are costing Kiwis a mountain of money, according to latest figures by ACC.

The main highway north of Balclutha remains closed this morning after a head-on crash in which a woman was killed and another seriously injured.

One person has died and another has been airlifted to hospital with serious chest injuries following a two-car crash in Otago tonight.

An Auckland roofing company fined $18,000 after a worker seriously hurt himself when he fell from a two-storey building.

A five-year-old girl has been flown to Middlemore Hospital with burn injuries after the dress she was wearing went up in flames when she came too close to a nearby gas heater.

A female wing walker and her stunt pilot were killed when their plane crashed into the ground and exploded into flames.

Broadcaster John Tamihere raced to a fatal car crash in central Auckland yesterday after hearing his wife's son was hurt.