Police have released the name of a man who died yesterday afternoon in a crash along the Napier-Taupo Rd.
He was 43-year-old Stewart James Niwa Vercoe, known as Niwa, of Hastings.
Emergency services were called to the crash between two vehicles near Te Haroto along the State Highway 5 at about 4.20pm.
Four people were transported to the Hawke's Bay Hospital; one person by Lowe Corporation Rescue Helicopter and three by ambulance. Mr Vercoe died at the scene.
This morning a Hawke's Bay District Health Board spokeswoman confirmed a female in her 40s remained in a critical condition and a male in his 60s was in a serious but stable condition.