A man is facing alcohol-related charges after a teenage girl died in a car crash near Mt Ruapehu on Saturday night.
Constable Paul Osborne of Ohakune said the 43-year-old appeared to have lost control of the car and crashed into an embankment on the Raetihi-Pipiriki road near Raetihi just before 11pm.
One passenger, a 15-year-old girl, died at the scene and another, also a 15-year-old girl, was taken to Wanganui Hospital with moderate injuries. The driver will appear in Taumarunui District Court today.
One other person died on the roads at the weekend - a Palmerston North father of three killed when the vehicle he was in hit a fence and rolled on Tukairangi Rd, near Taupo, about 4am on Saturday. He was Troy Colin Sanson, 43.
Charges after fatal crash
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