A 19-year-old who died after the car he was driving hit a tree on Good Friday is being remembered as a "big softy" with a "friendly and goofy personality".
Henry Boyd, of Geraldine in Canterbury, was driving on State Highway 77 in Methven, near Christchurch, when his car left the road and crashed into a tree in a rest area on Friday night.
He was the only person in the car and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Friends and relatives of Mr Boyd have been posting tributes to the teen online.
"Still don't want to believe it. RIP boyd!! You were taken way to soon life is so unfair!! Not a day will go by where we won't think of you, you will never be forgotten fly high you big softy (sic)," one friend posted on Facebook.