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Whakarewarewa fatal crash: Names released

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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.

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