Police have named three men killed in two car crashes in South Taranaki.
Stuart Smith, 30, from Britain, died when his stationwagon hit a fence and skidded into a tree on Kahui Road, at about midnight on Thursday.
Two other men died at 2.15am on Friday when their car struck a bridge on State Highway 45 just outside Rahotu.
They were Wayne Roy Peters, 33, from Pungarehu and Benjamin Taylor, 25, also from Pungarehu.