The scene of Sunday's crash.
The youngest of two children injured in a serious crash near Whakatane yesterday has died.
Sergeant Ray Wylie of the Whakatane police said the baby, aged 5 months, was flown to Starship Hospital last night but has since died.
A doctor, who was one of the first people at the
scene of the crash, worked on the baby for close to an hour on the bridge and continued during the ambulance journey to the hospital.
The baby was one of four people in a car that collided head-on with a small truck about 2pm yesterday.
Mr Wylie said the crash happened at 1.50pm on Thornton Rd, near Edgecumbe.
