The crash has been added to the increasing list of fatal road accidents in Hawke's Bay during the past few months.
Jane Hunter of Porangahau was critically injured and later died when two vehicles collided at the intersection of Pourerere Rd and River Rd near Waipawa in April.
Quentin Robert Terure, 30 of Napier, was also killed in early April after his car struck the Manga-O-Nuku Bridge on State Highway 50 in Tikokino.
Emergency services spent hours at the scene and Tikokino firefighter Mike Harrison said at the time the accident "was one of the worst" crashes he'd attended.