Accidents

A horse fell down a bank into a culvert near Lake Hawea about 4.30pm yesterday, briefly trapping its rider underneath.

An Alexandra man is awaiting sentence for an incident in which his wife died last September 5.

A proposal to get rid of New Zealand's give way to right-turning traffic driving rule has received general support from Dunedin driving instructors.

Warning signs should be erected near the edge of the Clutha River, Otago-Southland regional coroner David Crerar has recommended, after a 16-year-old Dunedin youth drowned in the river in 2008.

The Dunedin City Council needs to improve its systems for responding to concerns raised about unsafe buildings being used for accommodation, Otago-Southland region coroner David Crerar, said following a lengthy inquest into the death of a Dunedin man who fell from a first-floor doorway.

Police have named a man killed yesterday when the tractor he was driving rolled off a driveway on to State Highway 2 south of Hastings.

A construction materials delivery turned into a demolition disaster for four cars, a van and a power pole in Dunedin yesterday morning.

An explosion has blown apart a power plant under construction in Connecticut as workers purged natural gas lines, killing at least five people and injuring a dozen or more in a blast that shook homes for miles, officials said.

An untimely lane change resulted in two women from Mataura, being taken to hospital following a collision in Dunedin yesterday.

A promising 15-year-old Dunedin motocross racer has died in Dunedin Hospital after a crash on a track at Titri Park, near Waihola, on Wednesday.