An elderly woman is in a critical condition at Middlemore Hospital after a car ploughed into the bus shelter she was waiting in with her two grandchildren in Auckland yesterday.

Police have named a man who died after his car plunged more than 150m off a bank in the Marlborough Sounds on Monday.

A man has been convicted of careless driving causing injury, despite the fact he wasn't driving the car that crashed, injuring him and his mother.

Martin lies in agony, his clavicle broken and three fingers mangled beyond recognition. He has no idea what is about to happen.

Carterton schoolgirl Grace Ellen Diedrichs has been remembered as a "happy little girl, smiling all the time" after her tragic death in a train accident.

A young boy is dead after being hit by a car on a residential driveway in Kaipara Flats, Auckland.

The teenage driver of a ute that was hit by a commuter train, killing his 15-year-old passenger, may not be well enough to speak to police for a week or more.

A head-on car crash in the Bay of Plenty today killed a woman and left six other travellers, including two children, in hospital.

A plea has gone out for drivers to be cautious at level crossings after a teenager was killed and her 17-year-old driver seriously injured.

The parents of a toddler who were not told he had fallen heavily on his first day of childcare discovered he had a 6cm skull fracture 24 hours later.

Heartfelt messages from friends are reaching out to a grieving expatriate Kiwi man whose son fell into a freezing pond while feeding ducks with his gran.

Two people were critically injured when a van full of Taiwanese tourists and a van carrying a shearing gang collided in King Country this afternoon.

The teenager accused of shooting and killing his friend with an airgun during a drinking session can be named for the first time.

Police have charged an 18-year-old Auckland man with the manslaughter of his friend who was shot dead with an airgun during a drinking session.

A coroner says high visibility clothing should be compulsory for cyclists after the death of a senior police officer who was hit by a truck while riding his bike.

A truck driver is dead after a fully laden truck and trailer unit rolled down a bank leaving a timber mill in Whangarei.

Germany's Jacqueline Zech says she had the "best father ever" in an emotional tribute after her dad died in a motorcycle crash north of Wanganui.

A 3-year-old boy turned blue and nearly stopped breathing when his neck became caught in an electric car window, the rescuers say.

The German tourist who suffered life-threatening injuries to his head and face when his motorcycle collided with a four-wheel-drive north of Wanganui yesterday afternoon died in Wanganui Hospital overnight.