Police are appealing for sightings of a dark blue Subaru Legacy station wagon shortly before it was involved in a three-car fatal smash in Northland yesterday.
The 27-year-old driver of one of the cars was killed and his 29-year-old passenger seriously injured in the accident on State Highway 1 on the Whangarei side of the Brynderwyn Hills about 3.20pm.
The 39-year-old driver of the Subaru was also badly injured and remains in a critical condition in Auckland Hospital today.
The two occupants of the third vehicle were not injured.
Whangarei police said today they would like to hear from anyone who witnessed the crash who had not yet been interviewed.
They would also like to hear from anyone who saw the Subaru Legacy being driven from Warkworth to the Brynderwyn Hills shortly before the crash.
The accident was one of three fatal crashes over the weekend.
A crash near Nelson on Saturday night left a 46-year-old bushman dead.
Michael Sean Barclay, from Richmond, was killed in the single vehicle crash on State Highway 6 in Clark Valley, about 80km southwest of Nelson, about 10pm.
Mr Barclay's southbound ute left the road and crashed down a bank before colliding with a large tree, Senior Sergeant Stu Koefoed, of Nelson police, said.
Early yesterday a young man was killed when he fell from a car which then ran him over on a beach near Tauranga.
The 22-year-old local man had been riding on the outside of the car on Omanu beach in Mount Maunganui about 1am, Senior Sergeant Carl Purcell of Tauranga police said.
The 23-year-old driver of the car had been drinking and was charged with drink driving after he blew a reading of 446 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit is 400mcg.
