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The driver of a vehicle in which a 4-year-old girl was killed - one of three fatals in a horror 24-hours on our roads - may face charges.
Kay Ann Morgan bore the brunt of the impact when the Holden Statesman she was travelling in crossed the centre line and crashed head-on into a ute.
The Friday night crash just north of Otorohanga, occurred on an easy right-hand corner, in fine weather.
Police confirmed the driver of the north-bound Holden was likely to be charged.
The male driver, believed to be in his 20s, was airlifted to Waikato Hospital with serious injuries.
The two occupants of the ute suffered minor to moderate injuries. The woman driver has since been discharged.
Meanwhile in Auckland, a booming thud was the first thing Chris Andresen heard before running outside to see steam, smoke and vehicle debris littering the road outside his Takanini home.
A light goods vehicle had crashed into the back of Andresen's parked truck on Friday night, instantly killing the passenger. The driver was taken to Middlemore Hospital in critical condition.
"It was a big mess, I've never seen one that bad in New Zealand," said Andresen, who drove trucks in America for eight years.
Andresen said "it sounded like a shotgun going off".
The third fatality happened when a Honda Civic hatchback left the road near Paeroa, ploughed through a fence and hit a power pole.
Police say a man in his early 20s from the Te Aroha area was killed in the Wani Rd crash at 3pm yesterday.
Power lines had been knocked out by the crash, which happened in wet conditions on a straight country road surrounded by farmland.
