One person has died following a crash on SH5 near Te Haroto. Photo / Google Maps
One person has died following a crash on SH5 near Te Haroto. Photo / Google Maps
Police confirmed that one person had since died following a crash near Te Haroto on Sunday.
The crash occurred on SH5 at the intersection with McVicar Rd near Te Haroto at 4pm. Five people were taken to hospital following the crash.
Two people are now in a stable condition, oneis in a serious condition and one has been discharged.
Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.
The death has taken the toll in Hawke's Bay this year to nine, all in the wider Napier-Hastings area and, despite the emptying of the roads in the Covid-19 lockdown, one more than at the same stage in 2019, and the highest January-June figure for the region in the past three years.
According to online Ministry of Transport statistics, there have been no fatalities this year in the Wairoa, Central Hawke's Bay or Tararua districts.
At midnight on Tuesday the provisional nationwide toll this year was 137 - 50 fewer than at the same stage last year and on target for 2020 to be only the fourth year since 1950 with a toll under 300. The peak was 843 in 1973.
Meanwhile, another person is in a critical condition following a separate crash on Wednesday near Wairoa.
