Police have released the name of a Dunsandel man who died after being hit by a vehicle in Moeraki on Friday night.
Geoffrey Owen Hill (75), who had holidayed in Moeraki for many years, was struck by a 4WD vehicle and trailer on Haven St.
He had just got out of the vehicle to walk to his holiday house when he was hit, Sergeant Tony Woodbridge said.
Emergency services from Hampden, Palmerston and Oamaru were called about 9pm and Mr Hill was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police and Victim Support personnel were in Moeraki throughout the night and a serious crash investigator was at the scene until about noon on Saturday.
The road was closed for part of the morning.
Sgt Woodbridge said family members were present when the incident happened and it had also affected the community "quite considerably".
Police inquiries were continuing and it was too early to say if charges would be laid.
Further north, a 27-year-old Fijian woman, who was a front-seat passenger, was killed when the car she was in left the road and crashed into a power pole on State Highway 1, north of Ashburton, South Canterbury, yesterday morning.
The accident happened shortly after 1am, and no other vehicles were involved, Sergeant Sean Buchanan, of Ashburton, said.
The male driver (27), also from Fiji, was critically injured and taken to Christchurch Hospital.
Israel Maki Tane Porter (27), of Gordonton, north of Hamilton, was killed on Saturday afternoon when his car was in a collision with a van on the outskirts of Hamilton.
Waikato police said they had called off the pursuit of Mr Porter's Mazda 323 shortly before the accident.
A cyclist killed when he was in a collision with a turning car in south Auckland on Thursday was an "academic superstar" whose career was taking off, his colleagues say.
Johann "Hans" Edge (36), father of three young children, was riding with two other University of Auckland colleagues, when his bike hit the rear passenger side of a Holden car turning into an address in Pakuranga.
Police were yesterday continuing to investigate a freak accident which left a 4-week old baby dead in Auckland on Saturday.
It is believed the child was knocked from her mother's arms when her car rolled backwards, and the baby fell under the wheels.
