A man was killed and four others injured, one critically, when a car hit a power pole in Northland last night.

A Filipino crewman working aboard a logging ship at Port of Tauranga suffered serious lacerations this morning after a crane-operated winch wire struck him across his chest and neck.

A 53-year-old Napier construction worker was killed in a freak workplace accident after being struck by a large steel beam.

A 72-year-old suffered serious injuries when his van plunged 150 metres down a bank in Hawkes Bay.

A seriously injured driver lay trapped in his crashed truck across railway lines for more than an hour in Waikato last night.

A man is in hospital after his light truck crashed through a bridge barrier and tumbled four metres onto a stream bank in the Hawkes Bay.

Police need to be able to pursue drivers "otherwise we turn the roads over to the criminals," says New Zealand Police Association vice-president Stuart Mills.

Two people died in a four-car crash in Northland yesterday afternoon during a weekend of road carnage that claimed eight lives.

Was I hit by a car, Mum? Those were the first words Danielle Franklin heard her 9-year-old son say.

Emily Mott woke up feeling dizzy days after falling off a quad bike and hitting her head on a rock while working on a dairy farm near Dannevirke.

A fisherman drowned and a kite-surfer may be lost at sea after two searches off the coast of Taranaki yesterday afternoon.

The heartbroken husband of a young New Zealand-based doctor who died while scuba diving in Vanuatu is vowing to fight for answers.

Kerre McIvor says the media must stop inferring that police are somehow at fault with pursuits that end tragically.

A person has been killed and another seriously injured at the Hanmer Rally today.

Safety fears were raised months ago over the super-fast yacht in which Olympic gold-medallist Andrew Simpson died, it was revealed last night.

Police say they will change the way they handle pursuits after three people died while fleeing police in Gisborne.

An inquiry into the deaths of three people following a police pursuit found the chase should have been abandoned earlier, and the officer did not fully comply with policy.

One person has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries following a collision in Paekakariki, north of Porirua.

A 4-year-old boy had his arm stuck in a Coca-Cola vending machine for 45 minutes as his grandmother feared he'd crushed his fingers.

A helicopter which went down in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour was the first of its kind and was due to feature in a helicopter expo in Russia in a few days.