A Waikato man is dead and two others injured after a three-car pile-up on the outskirts of Hamilton.
Glass and other debris lay strewn on State Highway 26 at Eureka yesterday, while the dead man's Mercedes sat crumpled with its doors ripped off its hinges after firefighters used the jaws of life to free him. A Chorus van suffered serious damage to the front and a Suzuki Swift appeared to suffer minor damage.
The two vehicles' sole occupants were both taken to Waikato Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries after the crash just before 3pm.
The man's death is the second Waikato fatality in a week after Indian student Dilbag Singh Sekhon, 20, was killed in a crash with a truck and trailer unit on SH2 near Paeroa last week.