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Eight people were killed on New Zealand roads over the weekend (file photo).
Eight people died in a weekend of terror on the roads of New Zealand.
Police confirmed Monday that a second person had died after a single-vehicle accident on the Great South Road in Huntly, which had already confirmed the death of one.
A few hours earlier, a motorcyclist had become the sixth weekend victim after an accident near Waihī.
Police said one person was killed in the single-vehicle motorcycle accident, reported around 3 p.m. Sunday on Landlyst Rd, five miles northeast of Waihī.
Investigations are underway to determine the circumstances of the accident, police said in a statement.
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Two people died Saturday night in a single-vehicle accident in Macraes, north of Dunedin.
A police spokesman said the single-vehicle crash on Macraes Back Rd in the Waitaki district, inland from Palmerston, was reported shortly before midnight.
Two others suffered serious injuries and were taken to Dunedin hospital.
Earlier on Saturday, a person was killed in a car accident on Boundary Rd, Clover Park near Manukau in Auckland, around 6.30pm.
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Most of the fatalities occurred in single vehicle crashes in New Zealand.
On Saturday morning in Northland, around 3 a.m., a woman died and two others were injured in another single-vehicle accident, on Pukepoto Rd in Kaitaia.
Also on Saturday morning, a pedestrian was killed after being struck by a vehicle at 1.27 am on the Shenandoah Expressway, near Murchison in Tasman.
The accident occurred on State Highway 65 between Maruia Saddle Rd and Pea Soup Rd.
Stuff has requested comment from the police on the series of fatal accidents.
