This year’s Easter road toll is among the worst recorded in the past decade.
As of Monday afternoon, seven deaths had occurred during the course of the long weekend.
That toll ties with the Easter road toll recorded in 2018 when seven people were killed. In 2010, 12 people were killed on the roads at Easter, Ministry of Transport data shows.
For the first time since 2012, no-one was killed on the roads at Easter last year, partly due to the country being in the Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown.
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This year’s road roll period officially began at 4pm on Thursday, April 1, and ends at 6am on Tuesday, April 6.
Thursday
The first fatality recorded occurred on Thursday, after a truck and car collided on State Highway 27 in Kaihere, a rural Waikato settlement in Hauraki. One person was killed in the crash and three others were injured.
Police were called to that incident about 7.50pm.
Police say there are no injuries after a campervan rolled on the Auckland motorway, State Highway 1, on Easter weekend.
Later in the evening, 22-year-old Kalam Safari Watkin-Mamode died following a serious crash on State Highway 2 in Waikatos Mangatwhiri.
Emergency services were called to the crash at 9.30pm.
Friday
Tauranga woman Kellie Jane Greer, 49, died following a crash about midday on Friday. The accident occurred at the intersection of State Highways 30 and 32, near Whakamaru.
A car crash occurred near Whakamaru on Friday.
Saturday
Another fatality was recorded on Saturday morning following a crash at the intersection of State Highway 38 and Okaro Rd in Waimangu, near Rotorua.
The incident involved a motorcycle and a car. Police were called about 11am and said one other person had been injured in the crash.
On Saturday night, a person died in hospital from their injuries after their car crashed into a power pole in taki, on the Kpiti Coast.
Emergency services were called to the crash in Tasman Rd after 9.30pm on Saturday.
A sixth fatality occurred late on Saturday after a pedestrian died in central Wellington. Police said an incident occurred between a pedestrian and a bus in Taranaki St shortly before 10pm.
Sunday
The road toll rose to seven on Sunday after a motorcyclist was killed in the Far North. Police said a collision occurred between a car and a motorcycle about 8km north of Te Kao on Far North Rd/SH1, about 11.30am on Sunday.
The motorcyclist died at the scene.
One person died following a crash involving a car and a motorcycle in Northland, in Far North Rd.