Weekend road victim named

Another of the four people killed on New Zealand roads during the weekend has been named.

Kaiapoi man Gregory Malcolm Venz, 47, died after his car collided head on with a house bus on State Highway 1 in Woodend, near Christchurch, on Sunday.

Police were still trying to contact the family of a person who died in West Auckland after a car hit a power pole on Sunday morning.

In Wellington, Amy Margaret Edward-Mintorn, 23, died in hospital from injuries after a hit-and-run.

In Tauranga, 62-year-old Athena Thomson died on the way to hospital on Saturday after a head-on car crash near downtown Tauranga.

- NZPA