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.
