Police have named the woman who died in a fatal car crash on State Highway Three at Rukuhia, south of Hamilton.
She was 30-year-old Karen Dorothy Downes, also known as Karen Anderson, of Masterton.
The woman died after over-correcting on a corner and crashing into a power pole on Monday.
The pole snapped in half and the road was closed for about three hours while the Waikato Serious Crash Unit investigated the cause of the crash.
- NZHERALD STAFF
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