The fatal logging truck crash near Te Puke on Saturday was one of five fatal crashes police attended throughout the country during the Queen's Birthday weekend.
Te Puke woman Lisa Yieng, 36, was killed when she attempted a U-turn in front of a fully laden logging truck on State Highway 2, near Pah Road.
Lisa Yieng died from injuries she sustained in a crash on State Highway 2 on Saturday.
Her vehicle was T-boned by a truck at around 7.30am on Saturday, May 30.
At the time of the crash, acting Senior Sergeant Scott Merritt says Lisa was the only person in the vehicle and died as a result of injuries she sustained.
Lisa's death followed two fatalities in Canterbury.
A five-year-old boy also died from injuries sustained in a crash in Levin and a man was killed in Northland when his vehicle veered off the road.
The holiday toll is still provisional and several people remain in hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries, so that number could still rise.
Police assistant commissioner Dave Cliff says while there was one less death on the roads compared to the same weekend last year, even one death is one too many.
4 comments
So Police
Posted on 03-06-2015 18:26 | By Kenworthlogger
Are we still concentrating on people 4 km over the limit? How many people need to die?
Sadly
Posted on 03-06-2015 20:38 | By joe p
This accident was caused by a bad decision, nothing more nothing less, I feel for the family,and also the truck-driver, any other comment is worthless. A thousand police would not have prevented this accident.
Joe
Posted on 04-06-2015 14:27 | By Kenworthlogger
I believe if the Police concentrate on poor driving and the licensing dept make the tests more harder so it is actually hard to get a license then we may get a better class of driver. If we do nothing the status quo will provale.
Speed fixation
Posted on 04-06-2015 14:36 | By Feruno
is not what is needed in NZ .2 of these deaths I know about personally , and both were below 15km/hr .The revenue gathering/1kmh over only has motorists focusing on the speedometer instead of road conditions and traffic around them . Its an old recipe for death
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