The Victoria Park Skate Plaza where a 25-year-old man died when he tried to skate down the wall of the motorway tunnel building.
A skateboarder's death has prompted the installation of razor wire to stop people trying to skate down the wall of a structure linked to central Auckland's motorways.
Pitiphong Sangsirichat, 25, was seriously injured at the Victoria Park Skate Plaza on January 27 when he fell from the top of the
structure. He died two days later in hospital. His death has been referred to the coroner.
A skating ramp at the park runs up to a sloping wall of a structure at the park. The structure is part of an emergency fire exit for people who need to get out of the motorway tunnel that passes underneath.
The new razor wire is intended to stop people from climbing onto the top of the structure to try to skate down the whole wall and onto the ramp.
Auckland Council general manager of community facilities Rod Sheridan said that following the death the council had worked with the New Zealand Transport Agency to prevent access to the top of the building.
