Three road deaths

A cyclist is dead after being hit by a car on State Highway 10, near Kaeo, north of Kerikeri, last night. And a middle-aged woman died when her car left the road near the intersection of State Highway 1 and Mahurangi West Rd, 3km north of Puhoi.

A man critically injured on April 19 in a collision with a stock truck that had stopped on the side of State Highway 5 just north of Wairakei has died. He was Allister John McLay, 34, of Napier.