An 11-year-old girl killed in a South Canterbury car crash yesterday has been named.
Kate Ailsa Leslie died in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of State Highway 8 and Prohibition Rd at Cave, about 32km northwest of Timaru, about 7pm yesterday.
Her death brought the weekend road toll to six, after an earlier Canterbury crash and two double-fatal crashes in the North Island, both on Saturday.
Stephen John Kinloch, a 37-year-old from Christchurch, was killed when he crashed his motorbike in the Christchurch suburb of Waltham about 8.15pm Saturday.
On Saturday morning, Papatoetoe shop assistant Kuljinder Singh and student Jagroop Singh, both 22, were killed when the car they were travelling in collided with a truck on the Desert Road about 7.40am.
The pair, who were not related, died at the scene, while the truck's driver was unhurt.
They were named after the Indian High Commission in Wellington contacted their next of kin overseas.
The crash was still under investigation.
On Saturday night, Justin Michael Aikman and Shannon Thomas Hepi, both 25 from Otorohanga, died about 7pm when the Honda car they were travelling failed to give way at the intersection of Rolleston St and Arapuni Road in Kihikihi, 30km south of Hamilton, and collided with another car.
The men and two other passengers were thrown from the Honda, while three people travelling in the second car were also seriously injured.
Police said the Honda had been stopped for speeding earlier on Saturday, and that the driver had said he thought he was still driving on an open stretch of road when the crash happened.
Waikato district road policing manager Inspector Leo Tooman said the deaths were "totally avoidable".
Neither man was wearing a seatbelt and speed was a confirmed factor in the crash. Police were still investigating if alcohol was involved.
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old Christchurch woman died in hospital on Saturday, three weeks after a Christchurch police pursuit ended in a crash which killed two others.
Karleane Marie Magon was injured in the July 10 crash, after the Mitsubishi Lancer she was a passenger in sped away from a routine police stop on Manchester Street about 1am.
After pursuing the car for a few streets, police found the car smashed into a concrete pole at the intersection of Manchester St and Moorhouse Avenue.
Front seat passenger Shannon Smiler-O'Connor, 26, died at the scene, and the car's driver, Tama Regan Dobson, 27, died in hospital last Tuesday after his life support was turned off.
NZPA