Two people have died and more than a dozen injured during another grisly weekend on New Zealand's roads.
Just after 4am on Sunday morning one person died in a two-car crash on State Highway 12 near Paparoa, Northland.
About seven hours later one man died and a second person was seriously injured in a crash in Whanganui after a car hit a power pole.
The deaths add to what is shaping up to be New Zealand's worst year on the roads in over a decade.
The latest Ministry of Transport figures for road deaths for the year to November 22 of 337 were six above the same time last year.