
Police can now release the names of the four people who died in a crash on State Highway 5, Whakarewarewa on Monday 9 December.
Three people in one vehicle died, and their names were:
- Amelia Rose Frost, aged 26, of Napier
- Ruben James Frost, aged 18, of Napier
- Tray-Dee Akuhata Wall, aged 20, of Rotorua
The fourth person who died was travelling in the second vehicle, was 50-year-old MaryJane Merehini Heke, of Rotorua.
Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash remain ongoing.