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.
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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 Waikato’s Mangatāwhiri. 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.
That toll exceeds 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. 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.
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Police say there are no injuries after a campervan rolled on the Auckland motorway, State Highway 1, on Easter weekend.