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A horror weekend on the country's roads has seen nine people die, including two cyclists and a heavily pregnant woman.
The number now beats Labour weekend's toll by one.
Just after 9am today, two cyclists were killed - a 71-year-old man and a 46-year-old man - after a car collided
with a group of cyclists in the Waikato, about 12km south of Morrinsville, northeast of Hamilton.
A third cyclist is in a critical condition and another has minor injuries.
"Police are unable to state at this stage if speed or alcohol seem to be a factor in the crash, but are investigating early indications that the car involved went around a blind corner on the wrong side of the road, subsequently hitting the cyclists," a statement from police said.
The driver of the vehicle, a 23-year-old female, suffered moderate injuries and has been taken to hospital.
Earlier this morning, a woman was killed in a suspected head-on smash in the central North Island town of Turangi.
Police were alerted to the two-car crash at 4.43am, which happened on State Highway 1.
About midnight, a pregnant 42-year-old woman died and two people were taken to hospital after a head-on collision just outside Opiki, on State Highway 56, about 18km south west of Palmerston North.
It appeared that a northbound vehicle driven by a man crossed the centre line and hit the southbound vehicle, police communications Inspector Paul Jermy said.
The heavily pregnant driver of the southbound vehicle was killed at the scene, while the driver of the northbound vehicle had to be cut from his car and was taken to Palmerston North hospital in a critical condition. A female passenger in the southbound vehicle was also taken to hospital in a serious condition.
Mr Jermy said police were investigating whether alcohol played a role in the crash.
Yesterday afternoon a South Korean student, who was studying English in Queenstown, was killed when the vehicle she was in rolled off Forks-Okarito Road running between Franz Josef Highway and Okarito, on the West Coast.
Geon Park, 23, a passenger, would probably have survived the crash if she had been wearing a seat belt, said Constable Paul Gurney of Franz Josef police.
She was thrown through the windscreen of the people-mover when it rolled after failing to take a moderate right hand bend in a stretch of roadworks, he said.
There were seven people in the rental vehicle. Of the survivors, one suffered a minor leg wound and the rest were in shock.
"It was a pretty simple rollover. The only factor was she wasn't wearing a seat belt, or she would have been fine."
Yesterday morning, Irishman Leslie Armitage, 23, died when the Landrover he was driving crashed off a road in Central Otago's Ida Valley.
Another man was killed when he rolled his car on a rural road east of Hamilton just before 7.30am.
The victim was the sole occupant and no other vehicles were involved.
A motorcyclist died in a crash in the Hamilton suburb of Te Rapa yesterday.
Meanwhile a woman died in a crash in the Sanson area, near Palmerston North, yesterday afternoon, police said.
In another crash - off-road and not counting in the official road toll - 14-year-old Leslie Noema-Whakamoa died after being trapped under a vehicle which crashed overnight on a four-wheel drive track in the Bay of Plenty, about 30km south of Whakatane.
- NZPA
