Christopher Frederick Vickers and Robin Thomas Fong are named as the two men who died in the high speed impact crash on Oropi Road on Tuesday.

The truck involved in the double fatal collision on Oropi Road on Tuesday.

Christopher, a 55 year old Pyes Pa man, was riding the motorcycle involved in the crash and Robin, a 68 year old Greerton man, was driving the light truck involved.

The crash happened near the Renner Park golf course and the Gold Club clubhouse manager there, Michelle Winchester, says the 100km/h section from the top of the hill to the roundabout with State Highway 29 should be 70kmh.

She's hoping Tuesday morning's double fatality will prompt authorities to have another look at the section of road that speeding vehicles are making increasingly dangerous.

'Speeding vehicles are a common occurrence,” says Michelle.

'There's a couple of nasty little bends as you are coming down from Oropi Road toward the roundabout.

'One of them is where the fatality was yesterday, and the second one is just at the corner where the petrol station is, a really nasty little bend.

'It takes fatalities for people to go ‘oh, well, I wonder...'.

'We've had some of our regular golfers hit outside our gate out there, a young guy and his pregnant wife.

'Their car was smashed into by a car not being able to stop coming down the hill.”

Vehicles coming down the hill have Renner Park, Cheyne Road and John's Produce on the left, putting traffic onto Oropi Road.

'It's scary, it's scary for all of us,” says Michelle.

'There is no way you can drive out of this car park. You definitely stop and look, because they are coming down there so quickly that they are on you before you realise.”

Michelle has an open invitation to someone from the Tauranga City Council's transport department to have a coffee with her and watch the traffic.

The crash occurred at 9.15am. That was when former city council candidate and Bay of Plenty Classic Aircraft Trust Chairman David Love was about to tee off at Renner Park.

'We were just walking out there and all of a sudden there was the most tremendous bang,” says David.

'We looked round and we saw the aftermath of the accident. We saw the van still in motion, and totally distorted, but that's really all we could see.

'We knew it was serious other people stopped there. We cold see the sight from all the way round the course as we played our round of golf.”

They guessed what was going on, they saw the ambulances arrive and leave without their sirens on; they saw the stretchers out for the bodies.

There was no screeching of brakes before the impact, says David.

'I think one of our group said he saw the van going up there fairly quickly, but that's hearsay and it might be unfair. The speed on the road there is 100km/h.”

'The van was going up the hill and the motorcyclist was coming down,” says David.

'Apparently it's a bit of a favourite motorcycle run because it's got nice sweeping curves.”