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One person is dead following a crash on State Highway Two, south of Taneatua in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
The smash, just after midday, involved a light truck and a motorcycle. The road is currently closed to traffic.
In south Taranaki, the driver of a vehicle was killed in a collision with a milk tanker on State Highway Three late last night.
It happened at Whareroa near Hawera.
Police say the driver of the vehicle was a male.
The tanker driver received ambulance treatment for moderate injuries.
- NEWSTALK ZB
