A 19-year-old man was the fourth person killed in 24-hours on the roads around Rotorua.
His body was found by a member of the public on State Highway 32 near Mangakino in the early hours of this morning, Taupo road policing manager Sergeant Murray Hamilton said.
It follows a crash that killed three people on State Highway 1 at Atiamuri, just north of Taupo, about 2pm yesterday.
Mr Hamilton said police were still working on the details of the crash and were attempting to contact the dead man's family.
"There was one vehicle involved, it looks like it left the road on a slight bend and went into a ditch and hit a culvert.