Two vehicles collided at the intersection of Fraser Street and Fifteenth Avenue, Tauranga at approximately 8.20pm on Saturday, April 17.
One of the vehicles then struck a street sign and its driver, 21 year old Blaze Kawau of Tauranga, was killed instantly. A 21 year old female passenger in the vehicle was taken to Tauranga Hospital with serious injuries.
The driver of the second motor vehicle was uninjured.
The intersection was closed for a couple hours while the Police Serious Crash Unit investigated and enquiries into the cause of the crash are continuing.
1 comment
Young people and licences
Posted on 18-04-2010 11:03 | By bunkers4
Young people getting their licence, should be made to view accidents like this first hand, as part of their training.
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