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When a man failed to return from a run on Friday night his mother went to look for him.
She found him dead in a ditch, with emergency services in attendance.
Police today named him as Brendon Dance, a 24-year-old Tuakau man, who was the victim of a hit-and-run.
The accident happened near Tuakau, 55km south of Auckland.
Mr Dance's mother went looking for him after he failed to return from a run about 8.30pm and discovered emergency services at the scene and her son dead.
The alleged driver, also from Tuakau, had by then returned to the scene with her husband. She was arrested and was given a breath alcohol test, which she allegedly failed.
Mr Dance was one of two people who died on the roads during the weekend.
About 12.20am on Saturday Clare Patricia Stedman, of Dunedin, was killed in a head-on crash on State Highway 1, south of the city.
Police said the 45-year-old woman's car collided with a station wagon.
The three people in the station wagon were taken to Dunedin Hospital, Sergeant Chris George said. The driver was in a serious condition.
On Saturday morning a 13-year-old girl died in Wellington Hospital after being injured in a head-on crash at Poukawa, 18km southwest of Hastings, on October 4.
Police named her today as Jennifer Algie, from Havelock North.
Three other women were injured in the crash, which happened on State Highway 2, when one car crossed the centre line, police said. It scraped the side of one car then collided with another head-on.
- NZPA
