Traffic was backed up for kilometres after a fatal crash in the Kaimai Range yesterday. Police have now named the victim as a Tauranga man. Photo / George Novak
The man killed in a crash near the Kaimai Summit yesterday has been identified as a Tauranga man.
Police have named the man as Paul Garratt Butcher, 58, from Pyes Pa.
The crash happened on State Highway 29 near the summit of the Kaimai Range, about a kilometre on the
Tauranga side.
A police media spokeswoman said the circumstances of the crash were yet to be determined by the Serious Crash Unit investigation, but a motorcyclist had been travelling towards Tauranga when it was in collision with a car.
The crash prompted the closure of SH29 for more than four hours. Two others injured in the incident were taken to Waikato Hospital in moderate conditions.
