A 21-year-old who died following a crash near Kaikoura had survived a three-storey fall from a university accommodation building just two years ago.
The victim, Wilson Murray of Marlborough, died when a truck and car collided just before 6am last Tuesday on State Highway 1 at Hapuku. A second person was reported to have minor injuries.
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In 2020, Murray had been at Christchurch's Ilam Apartments, run by Campus Living villages, leaning against a window grille when it broke, causing him to fall a terrifying three storeys, Stuff reported.
The then 19-year-old engineering student spent six days in a coma and woke to learn he had a brain injury, a fractured vertebra, fractured ribs and a punctured lung.