Fatigue may have caused fatal crash

Police say a fatal crash on State Highway One in the Waikato last night may have been caused by fatigue. File photo / NZ Herald

Fatigue may have caused a crash which killed a man in the Waikato late last night.

Police said that the victims's Mitsubishi Triton ute appeared to cross the centreline into the path of a southbound truck and trailer unit on State Highway 1 near Cambridge.

Clothing and materials found in the ute indicated the driver may have finished a long working day and fatigue could have played a major factor as it was a perfectly straight piece of road, Waikato road police manager Leo Tooman said.

It was the first fatal road accident since before the Queen's Birthday weekend when a zero road toll was recorded for the first time since records were kept more than 50 years ago.

- NZPA