The weekend road toll climbed to three last night, with a Central canterbury crash that left one person dead and a woman with serious injuries.
A St John Ambulance communications spokesman said the crash happened shortly before 8.30pm on Birchs Road, south of Prebbleton, and involved a car which gone through a fence into a paddock and rolled.
One person was dead at the scene, while the other, a woman in her twenties, suffered serious multiple injuries to her torso and head, and was taken to Christchurch Hospital.
It was the second fatality on Canterbury roads yesterday.
A middle-aged Christchurch woman died when her car left Main South Road at Islington, just south of Christchurch, about 3.15pm, police said. Her car collided with a fence and then hit a small shed, which caught fire.
The woman died at the scene.
About 1am on Saturday, a 21-year-old New Plymouth man died when his car hit a concrete wall in Frankley Road, in the New Plymouth suburb of Ferndale.
The car was travelling well above the 50kmh speed limit, Sergeant Grant Sawtell said.
"The vehicle appears to have lost control and struck a concrete retaining wall and has been extensively damaged," Mr Sawtell said.
Alcohol was also believed to be a factor, he said.
