Four Chinese nationals were travelling in the car that crashed at the Homer Tunnel near Milford Sound on Wednesday night, killing two people, police said yesterday.
Police say a 23-year-old Queenstown man was lucky to walk away from a crash early yesterday in which his car left the road, crashed through two fences, down a 50m bank and ended up 350m off the road.
The sole occupant of a single-cab utility vehicle was killed yesterday when it left the road and crashed into a creek bed near Ngapara.
The woman killed in a car accident near Romahapa last Friday was yesterday named by Balclutha police as Thelma Margaret Wilson (83), of Owaka.
A 21-year-old Dunedin man is dead after a car crash on the Clinton-Mataura Highway this morning.
A pedestrian was killed after they were struck by a vehicle on the main road of a Bay of Plenty town this afternoon.