The death takes this year’s official Christmas holiday road toll to three, after two deaths were reported yesterday.
A man who was struck by a car on a street in Napier, on Boxing Day, suffered critical injuries and died in hospital on Monday.
The second road toll death was recorded yesterday, after a single-vehicle crash on State Highway 2 in Tangoio, Hawke’s Bay.
Last year, 15 people were killed on New Zealand roads during the official Christmas holiday period, which started at 4pm on Christmas Eve and ends at 6am on Monday, January 5.
New Zealand’s annual road toll, as of this morning, stands at 270. If it remains below 272, it will be the second-lowest annual road toll total since 1951.
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