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Six people - five of them youngsters - have died in crashes on New Zealand roads this weekend.
A 24-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were killed when a car carrying five people aged 17 to 24 crashed into a tree in Wanaka last night.
Sergeant Aaron Nicholson
of Wanaka police a white Subaru WRX failed to take a tight bend on Mt Aspiring Road, and crashed into a large tree at 11pm.
Late on Friday night 15-year-old twin girls Shaan and Jasmine Tahere were killed when the car they were in slammed into a power pole in Auckland.
The twins were backseat passengers in the car that crashed on the city bound lane of the North-Western motorway at Mount Albert at about 11.30pm.
Yesterday morning an 18-year-old man died after his car left the road near Dannevirke and rolled down a bank.
Inspector Michael Coleman said the man had suffered serious head injuries and died at the scene.
Also yesterday an elderly man riding a motor bike in Gisborne was killed shortly after midday.
The victim, 64, lost control on a corner and crashed.
- NZPA