The police are investigating three separate crashes which killed six people overnight.
One person died in a single car crash in Dargaville.
Two are dead following a crash on the Waikato Expressway after a head on crash at Rangiriri at about four o'clock this morning.
Police say it appears a car was travelling the wrong way. And on State Highway 79, just out of Geraldine, three died when a campervan rolled, struck a barrier and caught fire.
The Timaru District Council mayor Nigel Bowen spoke to Corin Dann.
