An 18-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man have died in a road accident just outside Whanganui just before five o'clock this morning.
They were driving vehicles, one a ute, the other a car, which collided head-on on State Highway 3 at Kaitoke.
Three passengers had to be cut free from the wreckage by firefighters and are all being treated in hospital.
One, a Whanganui man in his twenties, had serious head and leg injuries.
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