It has been a disastrous week on the roads, with 15 deaths in seven days, police say.
Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson
All the crashes will be the subject of coronial inquiries.
Assistant police commissioner Dave Cliff said every death on the roads was a tragedy for the affected families.
He called on drivers to be more mindful of others, watch their speed, and make sure everyone in a car wore a seatbelt or other restraint.
One person has died after a car caught fire in a crash near Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty.
Two people are dead and another is seriously injured after a serious crash on SH2 near Mangatawhiri.
One person has died after a car crash near Matamata in Waikato.
A man has died in a tractor crash on a rural Waikato road in the early hours of the morning.
A motorcyclist and another person have died in two separate crashes in a day, in Hamilton and Eketahuna.
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