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    This year's Queen's Birthday road toll has doubled last year's

    This year's Queen's Birthday road toll has doubled last year's


    The official toll period finished at six this morning, with six deaths.

    The first fatality happened when a driver fled police in Auckland on Friday night.

    A motorcyclist was killed in Waitaki on Sunday, and another person in a crash in West Melton later that day.

    One person died when a car crashed into a shop in Auckland's Papatoetoe yesterday, and a motorbike passenger was killed in a crash near Port Waikato.

    And one person was killed in a truck crash near Mokau, in Waitomo, just before 4am today.

    Last year there were three deaths on the roads.

    © 2024 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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