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The Queen's Birthday holiday road toll stood at five last night - two more than at the same time last year.
The fatalities occurred at Muriwai, the Kaimai Ranges, Kingseat, Masterton and in Northland, where a pedestrian was knocked down and killed as he walked home at Ahipara early on Sunday. He was William John King, aged 36, of Ahipara.
