The death of a 52-year-old man in Marlborough yesterday has pushed the holiday road toll to 11.
The man died after his car rolled on State Highway 6 at Canvastown, 51km northwest of Blenheim, shortly before 9pm.
Two other men also died yesterday, one in a motorcycle crash on the Coromandel Peninsula, the other - Sean Coe, 20 - in Waikato Hospital following a collision between a car and a van, just north of Hamilton, on New Year's Day.
Mr Coe was a passenger in a car which crossed the centre line and collided with a van carrying five disabled children on SH1, at Horotiu, about 8.30am, Waikato acting road policing manager Senior Sergeant Jeff Penno said.
Speed, alcohol and driver fatigue all appeared to be factors, he said.
Another man in the car was badly hurt but the children in the van escaped injury.
The Coromandel victim, who has not yet been named, died when his bike and another motorcycle collided on the winding SH25.
The official holiday road toll period started at 4pm on Christmas Eve and runs until 6am on Wednesday. Last year, 13 people died on the roads during the period.
Police yesterday named two victims of earlier crashes.
Tanisha Morris, 13, died after the car she was in and a truck collided on SH2, at Whirinaki about 3pm on Friday.
Tamataia Pera Maurangi, 35, from Point England, in Auckland, was killed in a single car crash just south of Hastings about 1.45pm on Saturday.
Also on Saturday, a man died after he went through a windscreen when two cars collided in the Bay of Plenty, about 5pm, police northern communications Inspector Matt Sillars said. Three other people were taken to hospital with minor to moderate injuries.
The first victim of the holiday period was Gayle Jean Anderson, 44, who died in a crash near Dunedin on Christmas Eve.
Just minutes into Christmas Day, 40-year-old Vineshwar Singh died in a hit-and-run in Pukekoe, south Auckland.
On December 28, Mary-Lee Huata, 17, died after a crash south of Wairoa. A 13-year-old boy was driving the Toyota Hilux she was a passenger in.
Sebastian Hirling, 16, was killed about 1.30pm on December 29 after a ute rolled on to him at Reporoa. Hirling and a 15-year-old boy had been sitting on the rear of the utility tray. The 15-year-old suffered back and spinal injuries.
Police were investigating and said charges were likely.
The same day, a 38-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle and a car collided on a gravel road off SH4, north of Wanganui.
He was Te Reimana Mathew Peina, from Wanganui.
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