ZB ZB
Live now
Start time
Playing for
End time
Listen live
Listen to NAME OF STATION
Up next
Listen live on
ZB

Labour Weekend road toll already at one

Author
Jacqui Stanford,
Publish Date
Fri, 24 Oct 2014, 6:00PM
The Labour Weekend Road Toll already stands at one (Photo: NewspixNZ/NZ Herald)
The Labour Weekend Road Toll already stands at one (Photo: NewspixNZ/NZ Herald)

Labour Weekend road toll already at one

Author
Jacqui Stanford,
Publish Date
Fri, 24 Oct 2014, 6:00PM

The Labour Weekend Road Toll already stands at one.

One person has been killed in a crash between a truck and a car on the Dairy Flat Highway, just north of Auckland.

Another person has been taken to hospital with minor injuries after the accident, which came just after the road toll period began at four o'clock.

Diversions are in place around Dairy Flat Highway.

There are queues in the main holiday travel pressure points of the North Island, including the Auckland motorways and the Kapiti Coast north of Wellington.

Congestion is heavy on State Highway 1 just north of Auckland, and on State Highway 2 at the intersection with the route to the Coromandel.

The situation's the same at bottlenecks on the highway along the Kapiti Coast, heading north from Wellington.

Meanwhile, a peak hour breakdown in the Victoria Park tunnel, and a crash at Otara on the Southern Motorway, haven't helped the congestion on Auckland's motorways.

Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you