Police name motorcyclist Craig Read after fatal Ngāruawāhia crash

A man has died following a crash between a car and a motorcycle on October 1. Photo / Google Maps

A motorcyclist has died in hospital after a Ngāruawāhia crash earlier this month.

Police said on Saturday that 59-year-old Ngāruawāhia man, Craig Read, died from the injuries he sustained in a serious crash on October 1

Police said emergency services were called to the crash, between a car and a motorcycle, on River Rd at 7am that day.

Read was taken to Waikato Hospital with critical injuries, where he died last weekend, police said today.

Police said their thoughts were with his family and loved ones.

The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation.

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