A third fatal crash on Auckland's roads today has brought the weekend road toll to four - and follows a crash near Taupo on Friday that killed five people.
Police said a car carrying four people collided with a tree on Lynwood Road, Kelston, shortly before 8pm.
A rear passenger died while the other three were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Two others died in separate incidents in Auckland this morning.
At 10.45am a woman was killed in a three-vehicle crash on State Highway 17, just north of the Albany Village.
Police said a grey BMW crossed the centre line on a corner and hit an oncoming Suzuki. The BMW then skidded into the path of a Toyota which collided head on with the right rear of the BMW.
The victim was believed to have been a backseat passenger in the Toyota.
Three others were taken to Auckland Hospital, one in a serious condition and the other critical.
Earlier, at about 1.30am, a 45-year-old man died after losing control of an Isuzu Bighorn four-wheel-drive on Waitakere Road, Taupaki. Police said the man, who was the sole occupant, was thrown from the vehicle as it hit a power pole. He died instantly.
On Friday evening Terrence John Schwass, 73, died after a two-car collision in Nelson.
Inspector Alan Weston, of Nelson CIB, said the vehicles were travelling on Atawhai Crescent when the accident occurred at 6.20pm.
Two other people from the crash were treated at Nelson Hospital.
The deaths follow an horrific accident north of Taupo on Friday afternoon in which five people were killed when a van and car collided on State Highway 1 at Wairakei.
The van burst into flames and the four occupants were killed. They have yet to be named.
The driver of the car killed in the crash was named as Peter De Wildt Pie, a 40-year-old Corrections Officer from Turangi.
Two injured children, aged nine and three, were pulled from the blazing vehicles by an off-duty policeman who suffered burns to his arms during the rescue.
The weekend road toll is measured from 6pm Friday to 6am Monday.
