Fatal crash victim was a French tourist
The man who was killed on SH2 in Whakamarama (Bay of Plenty of deaths) yesterday (Thursday, 26 February) was Nathan Luc Alain Boucher from Reze in France, police said.
The victim swerved to avoid a portable toilet that fell from a truck into the path of his car. In doing so it appears he lost control of the vehicle veered back across the road and collided head-on with a truck and trailer unit travelling in the opposite direction.
The driver of the truck from which the portable toilet fell pulled over to recover the item, said a report.
Mr Boucher was 23 years old and had been staying in the Tauranga area since arriving in New Zealand in December last year.
Nathan Luc Alain Boucher, 23, from Reze, France, was killed on State Highway 2 when he crashed near Whakamarama in the Western Bay of Plenty on Thursday (26 February 2015). Photo supplied/ NZherald.
Japanese tourist critically injured in latest tourist crash
A Japanese tourist was critically injured when his rental car and a truck collided near Christchurch shortly after midday.
Police said the Japanese man’s rented Suzuki Swift collided with a truck and trailer travelling south along McLeans Island Rd.
Chinese tourists were lucky this time
A group of Chinese tourists were lucky to escape without serious injury when their rental car plunged 20m into a West Coast river, said a report.
A 4WD Honda rental car (the car was probably defective, like many of the rental cars are in New Zealand) went off a gravel road and crashed down a bank into the Whataroa River on the West Coast.
Police name young girl killed in driving incident
Police have named the young girl who was killed on Wednesday night after falling from a moving vehicle.
She was Letitia Rose Thorner, 15, who died at the scene of the incident in Dannevirke about 9pm, the Palmerston North Police said.
Miss Thorner had been at Dannevirke High School for three years and her older sister was in year 13.
Girl killed by tourist motorist remembered
Ruby Jay Marris, the five year-old killed in a crash involving a Chinese driver in Otago, has been remembered as a “beautiful little angel” in online tributes, said a report.
The Marris family, of Oamaru, were travelling north on State Highway 1 when their car collided with an ute driven by a Chinese tourist near Moeraki on Saturday.
Her parents and two sisters were taken to Dunedin hospital but Ruby died at the scene, police said.
Police name victims of double homicide in Whangarei
Police have released the names of the two people who were killed following an incident at a Dundas Road address in Whangarei in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The two people were Brenda Nicola Gestro, 32, and Kim Douglas Larkins, 52. They both lived in Whangarei.
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