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Four dead, child injured in crash near Waipu

Author
Frances Cook,
Publish Date
Tue, 23 Dec 2014, 1:38PM
(Photo: NewspixNZ/NZ Herald)
(Photo: NewspixNZ/NZ Herald)

Four dead, child injured in crash near Waipu

Author
Frances Cook,
Publish Date
Tue, 23 Dec 2014, 1:38PM

UPDATED 7:46pm: Police say a car full of people which crashed into a fully laden logging truck, never stood a chance.

Witnesses have told police the car began making a U-turn on State Highway One near Whangarei, around one this afternoon, when it crashed into a fully laden logging truck.

A man a woman and two children were killed instantly and an eight year old boy is fighting for life.

State Highway One has now reopened

Northland Road Policing manager Inspector Murray Hodson hopes to get the road open again soon, but he says the investigation has to take top priority, and it's difficult to move the wreckage.

"Quite a horrendous crash scene. Boxes spilt from the truck.

"The size of the truck against the small vehicle is not a good recipe at the best of times and on this occasion...catastrophic outcomes."

 

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