Emergency services were called to the two-car crash on york Rd, near Flaxmere about 5.40pm on Wednesday where five people were injured, two critically. Photo / NZME
Emergency services were called to the two-car crash on york Rd, near Flaxmere about 5.40pm on Wednesday where five people were injured, two critically. Photo / NZME
A 14-year-old girl has died after a serious crash on York Rd, near Flaxmere, last week.
The young woman was one of five injured in the two-car crash, two of them critically, on Wednesday evening at about 5.40pm.
A police spokeswoman confirmed the 14-year-old had died in Hawke's Bay Hospitalon Saturday night.
A spokeswoman for the hospital said another young woman, believed to be in her late teens, had been transferred to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition over the weekend.
Two others also taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital after the crash were reported to have been treated and discharged, while a man in his 20s remained in a stable condition.
The crash occurred between the intersections with the State Highway 2 roundabout and Maraekakaho Rd on a stretch of road that is becoming a blackspot.
It was at least the third resulting in significant injury on the stretch of road in the past 10 weeks.
The speed limit had been lowered from 100km/h to 80km/h after a Hastings District Council speed limits bylaw review in 2018, and a man had been killed in a crash on the same stretch a year earlier.
