Eight people killed in horror weekend on New Zealand roads

Sunday, 30 August 2020

Eight people died on New Zealand roads over the weekend. (File photo)

Eight people have been killed in a horror weekend on New Zealand roads.

Police confirmed on Monday that a second person had died after a single-vehicle crash on Great South Road in Huntly, after which one person had been confirmed dead.

A few hours earlier, a motorcyclist had become the weekend’s sixth victim after an accident near Waihī.

Police said one person died in the single-vehicle motorcycle crash, reported about 3pm Sunday in Landlyst Rd, eight kilometres north-east of Waihī.

Inquiries are under way to determine the circumstances of the crash, police said in a statement.

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The deaths mostly happened in single-vehicle crashes around New Zealand.

Two people were killed on Saturday night in a single-vehicle crash in Macraes, north of Dunedin.

A police spokesperson said the single-vehicle crash in Macraes Back Rd in the Waitaki district, inland from Palmerston, was reported just before midnight.

Two others suffered serious injuries and were transported to Dunedin Hospital.

Earlier on Saturday, one person was killed in a single vehicle crash on Boundary Rd, Clover Park near Manukau in Auckland, at about 6.30pm.

On Saturday morning in Northland, about 3am, a woman was killed and two others injured in another single-vehicle crash, on Pukepoto Rd in Kaitaia.

Also on Saturday morning, a pedestrian was killed after being hit by a vehicle at 1.27am on the Shenandoah Highway, near Murchison in Tasman.

The crash happened on State Highway 65 between Maruia Saddle Rd and Pea Soup Rd.

Stuff has sought comment from police on the spate of fatal crashes.