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Two die in Dannevirke crashes just 18 hours apart

Doug Laing
By Doug Laing
Multimedia Journalist·Hawkes Bay Today·
4 Feb, 2023 07:28 PM2 mins to read

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The scene where a vehicle left State Highway 2 near Wahipai Reserve, just north of Dannevirke, in the first of two fatal crashes in the area within 18 hours. Photo / Doug Laing

The scene where a vehicle left State Highway 2 near Wahipai Reserve, just north of Dannevirke, in the first of two fatal crashes in the area within 18 hours. Photo / Doug Laing

Two people have died in separate daylight crashes in and near Dannevirke, just 18 hours apart with less than a kilometre between the two scenes.

Each happened in clear conditions, the first about 4.20pm on Friday when a vehicle left a State Highway bend near Wahipai Reserve, just north of Dannevirke, and crashed down a small bank into trees and bush. One occupant died, police said.

The second happened about 9.30am on Saturday when a vehicle and a moped collided a few hundred metres to the south of a High St stretch of SH2 between the Hospital St and the Dannevirke showgrounds, where the town’s annual A&P Show was in progress.

Police said a person who had been riding the moped was injured and airlifted to hospital, but had died.

Show and other traffic travelling from there was detoured for about two and a half hours via Hospital and Guy sts, but access to the showgrounds from the south was not disrupted and northbound traffic otherwise detoured via Cole and Guy sts.

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According to Ministry of Transport online statistics, the provisional nationwide road toll to Saturday night was 24, a third down on the 2022 tally of 36 at the same stage of the year.

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