A woman has died in hospital following a crash in Port Waikato on Friday night, bringing the preliminary King’s Birthday road toll to four.
Emergency services were called to Tuakau Bridge-Port Waikato Rd at around 6.10pm on May 30 to reports of a single vehicle rolling.
Three people were taken to hospital, two by ambulance who were moderately and seriously injured and one by helicopter who was critically injured.
The critically injured woman died in hospital yesterday, police said. The serious crash unit attended and the circumstances of the crash remain under investigation.
King’s Birthday road toll stands at four
The death brings the preliminary road toll for the King’s Birthday holiday weekend to four.
A two-vehicle crash in Northland near Waiomio, south of Kawakawa, killed one person just after midnight on Saturday.
A man died in Waipa, Waikato, after his vehicle rolled into a paddock on Saturday morning at around 7.40am.
One person died and four were injured on Auckland’s Northwestern Motorway early on Sunday morning when a car flipped onto its roof.
The official King’ Birthday holiday road toll period was from 4pm on Friday to 6am on Tuesday.
Last year, three people died on New Zealand roads during the same period.