Accidents

I was several floors up in a burning high-rise, trapped with hundreds of other panicked co-workers who couldn't find an easy escape.

Delta believes a private digger operator is responsible for knocking out an overhead powerline, on McDonnell Rd, Arrowtown, sparking a small grass fire and cutting power to more than 300 homes and businesses for almost three hours yesterday.

Two Wanaka men were lucky to avoid injury in a crash on a skifield road when their two-wheel-drive vehicle rolled off Cardrona Alpine Resort's access road yesterday, police said.

Two adults and a young child escaped without serious injuries, when two cars collided head-on on Arthurs Point Rd at 2.45pm yesterday, causing one of the cars to roll about 25m down a bank.

Aa Tom Fry's family prepares to farewell "a lovable rogue", police have revealed that the burnt-out car linked to the fatal motorcycle crash at Richmond last week had had identification removed from it.

Central Otago police are calling for more firearms safety awareness, after a second duck-shooting incident at Tarras has left a 10-year-old boy with serious hand injuries.

Two horses had an unexpected ride yesterday morning after their horse float became separated from its towing vehicle and crashed into a parked car.

A review of the safety of lpg heaters, recommended by Otago Southland regional coroner David Crerar last year, will be completed in the next few months.

Emergency service workers inspect a rental van that rolled on Highcliff Rd near Dunedin yesterday.

How a trailer being towed by a logging truck "jumped up and turned around" on State Highway 6 near Gibbston is still a mystery to Queenstown Police.

A man with serious back, pelvic and leg injuries was flown to Dunedin Hospital after a logging accident yesterday on Ururua Rd, Hillend, near Balclutha.