This morning a police spokesperson said family members were still being notified and police and the cause of the crash was being investigated.
"Police are still working to determine the circumstances surrounding the crash which will be part of their investigation."
Police hoped to be in a position to release the name of the crash victim tomorrow morning.
A Farndon Rd resident said the crash was "pretty bad", and on the Hastings side of the railway bridge.
Police had closed both ends of the road last night, but were letting residents through.
Another resident who has lived on the road for more than 20 years said the road has had more than its fair share of bad accidents.
"The last four or five years have been terrible, we almost need speed humps or something."
This is the second fatal crash on Farndon Rd in the past two years with Jesse Uncles, 21, killed in a crash in August 2015.
The car, driven by Tyler Walker, who was driving with a blood-alcohol level four times the legal limit, rolled on a bend, dropped down to a stand of trees and flipped back onto the road.
Mr Uncles who was in the back seat died at the scene while two other passengers were injured.
Mr Walker was sentenced to three years and nine months' imprisonment in April last year after admitting one charge of drink driving causing death, two charges of drink driving causing injury and one of dangerous driving.
He was also disqualified from driving for seven years.
This was the fifth fatal in the region already this year as last month 23-year-old Te Pouwhenua Hemi Waiwai from Wairoa was found dead after his utility vehicle crashed at the Mangapapa Bridge near Frasertown.
About three weeks prior 25-year-old Jennifer Eriha died at the scene after two cars collided head on along Te Aute Rd near Havelock North.
In January Aaron McDonald, 38, and his son Cruz, 8, died when their Weatherell Transport truck crashed through a barrier on State Highway 2, about 5km north of Norsewood, landing in dense bush 20m below.