A person has died after a car rolled on East Cape, bringing the Labour weekend road toll to five.
Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson
The crash was on State Highway 35 in Tikitiki earlier this afternoon.
Fatalities during the long weekend so far include a motorcyclist in Upper Hutt on Friday and three people in crashes in Whanganui, Gisborne and near Tekapo yesterday.
The man who died in a crash on the Tekapo-Twizel road near Tekapo yesterday has been named as 42-year-old Che Tekapa Hogg, from Auckland.
Three other people were seriously injured and airlifted to hospital.
Another motorcyclist is in a critical condition following a crash in northern Hawke's Bay today.
Last Labour Day weekend, only one person died on the roads.
The road toll for the long weekend ends at 6am on Tuesday.
