A second person has died following a crash between a motorbike and a logging truck on the Napier-Taupo Road on Friday morning.
Police released a statement confirming a person, who had been taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital in a critical condition, died on Friday evening.
It is understood the woman was the motorbike, riding pillion.
Another person, the rider of the motorbike, died at the scene of the crash, and the truck driver, a man in his 60s, sustained minor burns trying to rescue the two victim.
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