The weekend road toll has risen to six following a two-car smash north of Auckland today.
Emergency services were called to the crash on State Highway 1, about 10km north of Wellsford, at 8.26am, northern fire communications shift manager Scott Osmond said.
One person was dead and at least two others were seriously injured, Mr Osmond said.
The crash follows an already bloody weekend on New Zealand roads.
On Friday evening Terrence John Schwass, 73, died after a two-car collision in Nelson.
Yesterday four people died starting about 1.30am, when a 45-year-old was killed instantly after losing control of his four-wheel-drive and crashing into a power pole on Waitakere Road, Taupaki. At 10.45am a woman was killed in a three-vehicle crash on State Highway 17, just north of the Albany Village.
Shortly before 8pm a car carrying four people collided with a tree on Lynwood Road, Kelston, killing a rear passenger.
About 9.30pm another person was killed after crashing into a power pole, this time on Tangimoana Road, south of Bulls.
The weekend road toll followed an horrific accident in which five people were killed when a van and car collided on SH1 north of Taupo at 4pm on Friday.
Four of the dead were in the van which burst into flames and the other was the car driver.
Two injured children, aged nine and three, were pulled from the blazing van by an off-duty policeman who suffered burns to his arms during the rescue. A 11-year-old girl passenger from the car was also seriously injured.
The weekend road toll is measured from 6pm Friday to 6am Monday.
