The tanker driver involved in the triple-death collision in Patea last week has been found dead at his home.
The driver was involved in a collision with a car last Thursday when three people died in a fireball explosion which shocked and horrified the town.
Police announced yesterday that the driver had been found dead at his home in Stratford and that the death was being referred to the coroner. It is not being treated as suspicious.
His family had "requested privacy in relation to this tragic incident", police said.
The driver was pulled from his Fonterra milk truck dazed and shocked after the fatal crash, and was comforted on the side of the road by residents in Egmont St - Patea's main thoroughfare - where the accident happened, near the corner with Gloucester St.