Holiday road toll stands at seven

Seven people have been killed in a horror weekend on the roads that police say has been "gut-wrenching".

A pedestrian, struck and killed by a car in Auckland early this morning, brought the holiday road toll just shy of last year's, when eight people were killed on the roads over Labour Weekend.

That number is too high for national road policing manager Superintendent Paula Rose, who said it was "gut-wrenching" to hear about the deaths.  More Read