The official holiday road toll is the highest Queen's Birthday weekend toll since 1989.
Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson
The toll sits at 11, this morning more than double that of last year's Queens Birthday weekend.
Three people died at the scene of a serious crash in Parore in Northland about 6.45pm yesterday
There was no access to Baylys Coast Road, and the Serious Crash Unit was investigating.
Earlier that day, about 3pm, a motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a car in Huntly.
About midday on Sunday, a head-on collision between two cars on State Highway 2 near Mount Bruce in the Tararua District killed a man and left four others injured, one of whom died later in hospital.
A man also died in a crash in Rotorua on Sunday.
On Saturday, a person was killed in a three-vehicle crash north of Christchurch, another was killed in a crash in Te Kuiti and a motorcyclist died after hitting a parked car in South Auckland.
Another man died in a crash in Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin, on Friday evening.
There were five deaths on the roads during last year's long weekend.
In 2014, six people were killed - and, in 2013, no-one was killed.
View holiday road toll data going back to 1980
The holiday period will end at 6am on Tuesday.