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The name of the elderly person who died of injuries from a Boxing Day car accident has been named.
She was 87-year-old Aileen Summers from Dunedin. The accident occurred in North Otago.
Her death brought the provisional Christmas/New Year road toll to 24 - six more than the previous year.
Police National Headquarters senior media adviser Grant Ogilvie told NZPA the holiday road toll was still provisional and more people could yet die from injuries they received from accidents that happened between 4pm on Christmas Eve and 6am yesterday.
- NZPA
