Five girls were injured, including a teenage driver, after a crash in the Waikato.

Rotorua police are working on a fatality inquiry on behalf of the coroner.

Hunter Goodsell was badly hurt when the Auckland Council hoop snapped at the base.

Deaths of guide and his four clients in 1980 led to building of a new hut beside glacier.

The skydiver presumed to have died in an ill-fated tandem fall has been named by police.

She suffered critical injuries in the crash and had been on life support.

The young traveller was the last of nine pairs to leave the plane.

Harrowing scene leaves policeman tossing and turning at night.

A driver is in a critical condition after overnight truck crash.

Two people, aged 19 and 21, were airlifted to hospital after the 11am crash.

A Police co-ordinated response to a water rescue on Lake Wakatipu has been suspended.

Searchers probed the water on hands and knees for woman missing near river mouth.

A truck crash has closed SH63 between Kawatiri and Renwick in the Tasman district.

Schoolboy rowers escape after a falling tree sinks their boat.

A return to the place Meg Theriault almost died brought closure for the crash survivor.

A person is dead following a two-car crash on Whitford Rd.

Police have released a series of photographs from recent crashes to push a safety message.

Two dead after car catches fire in head-on smash.

The collision has left one person with serious injuries.

The motorbike and a ute collided just before 5.20pm.

Top road cop says we need to be better drivers if we want to stop the road carnage.

One person has died in hospital after a single-vehicle crash in Whangarei today.

Specialist firefighters rescue four trapped inside a car at bottom of a steep gully.

The car left the road on a suburban street and hit a fence.

Hitting the highways? Here's where congestion will be at its worst today.

Ultra marathon runner Nick Ashill was struck by a ute and left for dead on a US highway.

Clinging to a life raft and driftwood, Mark Thomas struggled to stay alive for nine hours.

Person taken to Auckland City Hospital after car ends up on other side of the barrier.

The worst drivers don't come from overseas says a top Canterbury policeman.

Donations a "lifesaver" for mum of four with newborn twins who was widowed.