Sixteen-year-old Mitchell Leslie Howe was killed when his car veered off the road and down a bank near Katikati's Uretara stream in the Bay of Plenty early yesterday morning.
Julie Brown from the police northern communications Centre yesterday said the teenager died at the scene at about 4 am.
Ms Brown said there was no one else in the car.
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