One person has died on New Zealand roads for each day of the official Christmas-New Year holiday period. The official road toll ended at 6am today, after 12 people died in crashes across the country. The latest holiday road toll comes as New Zealand records its worst annual toll in seven years. Taxi driver Abdul Raheem Fahad Syed (29) was the first victim in the holiday road toll, killed when his car was hit by another in central Auckland. Two more people died in crashes but as the crashes happened on private property they are not counted in the road toll.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 02, 2018 21:22 UTC