Ambulance staff speeding to the scene of one fatal car crash came across another in the small mid-Canterbury town of Hororata early this morning.
In both crashes, the single male driver had crashed his vehicle and died, police said. The accidents were unrelated, and happened about 4.30am thismorning. Hororata is 55km west of Christchurch.
The two accidents brought the weekend road toll to four.
A Temuka teenager died after being hit by a motorcycle in South Canterbury early today.
Cyle Fabian Saunders, 16, was hit by the bike on a rural road near Clandeboye, about 35km north of Timaru, about 12.30am today, police said.
The teenager died on the way to Timaru hospital, where the rider remains in a serious condition.
Further south, a 19-year-old woman airlifted to Dunedin Hospital after an early morning crash between Naseby and Ranfurly yesterday died that afternoon.
She was one of eight people involved in the two-vehicle accident, about 80km north-east of Alexandra.
Detective Ian Kerrisk, of Alexandra police, said a Ford Falcon and a Toyota ute, apparently travelling the same way toward Ranfurly, crashed off the road at about 1am.
The dead woman, whose name has not been released, was a passenger in the Falcon.
"But both vehicles left the road and the Falcon rolled, throwing some occupants."
Mr Kerrisk said the Falcon carried five people, the Toyota three.
The Falcon's driver, a 19-year-old youth, was also critically injured. He and another seriously injured person were flown to Dunedin Hospital.
