The road toll has soared to its highest level in seven years and police say we need to do better. By midnight the annual road toll provisionally stood at 380 deaths after two more people died in crashes yesterday. A man died in hospital after a car rolled and hit a fence on Keyte St in Whangarei yesterday morning. The final road death for the year happened in a crash on the Appleby Highway in Tasman just after 9pm when a car and ute collided. The Christmas-New Year Holiday road toll stands at 11.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 31, 2017 21:11 UTC