Inquiry into van crash ongoing

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

The police inquiry continues into the crash between a van and a car on State Highway 2 last Thursday in the Bartletts area in which three Mahia people were injured.

Eleven elderly people from Mahia were in the van, returning from a trip to Gisborne, and three of them needed a trip back to Gisborne, to hospital.

They had suffered some moderate injuries.

Police said yesterday inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were ongoing.