Holiday road toll at nine after person dies in Canterbury crash
This year's Christmas/New Year road toll is more than double the entire 2019/2020 holiday period, where four people died on New Zealand roads. Those accidents came after a crash in Southland on Monday afternoon where two people died. Viliami Muru-Teutau, 20, was one of two killed in a crash in west Auckland on Boxing Day, and 24-year-old Rebecca MacAlees and her 34-year-old partner Terry Charleston were killed in a single-vehicle collision in Clevedon on Christmas Day. Police investigations into all of the crashes are underway and are pleading for motorists to be patient. "We're really conc...