Accident

Police have named the man killed when he was thrown from a powerboat which collided with a buoy in Tauranga harbour yesterday afternoon.

Police are investigating after a 38-year-old man was electrocuted while camping in Eastern Bay of Plenty yesterday.

A 45-year-old Marton man is to appear in Feilding District Court this month on charges related to the death of a cyclist in November.

The Bay of Plenty Regional council has closed a sea wall from which a woman fell to her death this month pending a police investigation.

Police have named a woman who died after a car and a freight train collided in Stratford, Taranaki this morning.

The body of a young Christchurch man has been flown home from Thailand after he died in a scooter accident on January 2, Stuff reports.

Investigations are continuing into a collision which killed two men in Tauranga this morning.

A 29-year-old man is dead after he became trapped inside an irrigation machine on a Waikato farm today.

Police have appealed again for drivers to stay away from the booze after an alcohol-fuelled Auckland road crash left a teenage girl dead and three in shock.

A 13-year-old was killed when a stolen car lost control and crashed into the side of a house in South Auckland this morning.

The Treble Cone Ski Area has started an internal investigation into an accident on Tuesday in which a professional Norwegian snowboarder seriously injured his spinal cord while using a 10m jump in the saddle basin, but it is not yet known whether the Department of Labour will follow suit.

A truck driver remains critically ill in intensive care in Palmerston North Hospital this afternoon, a day after after being impaled by a rowing skiff that smashed through his windscreen.

A truck driver is in a critical condition in Palmerston North Hospital this afternoon after he was impaled by a canoe that smashed through his windscreen in a freak accident south of Levin.

A truck driver was pinned in his vehicle after a canoe smashed through his window and impaled him south of Levin today.

A 9-year-old girl was flown to Dunedin Hospital with moderate injuries after she was struck by a van as she walked to her school bus stop yesterday.

A 19-year-old Waimate man remained in a serious condition in Dunedin Hospital yesterday following a crash near Glenavy, just north of the Waitaki River bridge, on Friday.

An aircraft pilot is dead after his plane apparently hit an occupied car in Northland this afternoon.