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Six people died on the roads at the weekend, including two who will have to be identified using forensic testing because their bodies were so badly burned.
Emergency services were called to the latest fatalities at 4.37pm yesterday outside a motor racing track in Taupo. Police said two people died in the crash, at the intersection of Broadlands Rd and Centennial Drive. They have not been formally identified.
In the South Island, police are having to resort to forensic testing to identify two men who died in an early-morning car crash. The pair, believed to be in their 20s, died between 3am and 6am on Saturday on State Highway 90, between Crookston and Edievale in West Otago.
Invercargill Senior Sergeant Dave Raynes said forensic testing would confirm the men's identities as the car was completely burned out. "We have some idea who they might be and we've advised the families."
The car appeared to have run off a straight road and the cause of the crash was not known.
On Saturday, a 17-year-old woman died after being hit by a car on State Highway 1 near Blenheim.
Detective Mike Lawson said the young woman, who had been drinking, got out of a car at Grovetown, 4km north of Blenheim, and walked on to the road about 1.15am.
She was then hit by the car.
She was rushed to Blenheim's Wairau Hospital but died soon after.
The car driver was treated for minor injuries.
A person died when thrown from a car after it hit a power pole about 4.50am yesterday in Brookfields Rd, Hastings.
Another person was seriously injured in the crash.
- NZPA
