A driver is dead after a logging truck and car crashed in Waikato this morning and three more people died in crashes overnight. Fire and Emergency northern shift communications manager Colin Underdown said the crash happened on State Highway 29 at Karapiro. He said an empty logging truck and car had collided at 4.50am about 4km from the intersection with SH1. The single car crash happened about 11pm between Switzers Rd and Moncurs Rd. His car crashed into a bridge between Herbert-Hampden Road and Woodburn Road in Herbert.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 19, 2017 18:45 UTC