The truck driver who was found dead after last week's horror triple fatality in Patea was Fonterra driver Michael Fairclough.
Friends have paid tribute on social media to the dead driver, saying he was a "down-to-earth nice guy" and would be sadly missed.
Mr Fairclough's milk tanker and a car collided last Thursday. Three people died in a fireball explosion which shocked and horrified the Taranaki town.
Police announced yesterday that the driver had been found dead at his home in Stratford and that the death was being referred to the coroner. It is not being treated as suspicious.
