Watch some real-life near-misses from Auckland's Woodward Rd crossing in Mt Albert from 2010.

A man lived for years unaware a bullet was lodged in his head until an operation last week.

A teenage boy is critical after the car he was in smashed into a tree after an aborted police chase in Auckland.

The mother of two children killed in a 2008 car crash is horrified a hand-made cross erected to remember her son's life, and a cross erected to remember the life of a friend who died in the same smash, have been vandalised.

Two boys are in hospital with serious injuries after a police chase.

Police piecing together the fatal last minutes of the sunken trawler Oyang 70 are hoping to finish interviews with the surviving crew this week.

The man killed when his car crashed into the Manawatu Gorge near Ashhurst yesterday morning has been identified.

A car rocketed through a barrier like a "scud missile", plunging 30m into the Manawatu Gorge yesterday, killing the driver.

The Rotorua Girls' High School ball went ahead without Kristi-Rae Ruri-Gardiner, who died in a car accident a month ago.

A police dive squad has recovered the body of a man from the Manawatu River following a crash earlier this morning.