Drink-drive charge after woman killed in Grey Lynn

The driver of a car that hit and killed a woman pedestrian in Grey Lynn on Wednesday night has been charged with having excess breath alcohol.

Teremoana Bailey, 36, died after being struck near the Harcourt St-Williamson Ave intersection. Further charges are expected to be laid.

A woman hit and critically injured on a pedestrian crossing near the Royal Oak roundabout earlier in the week has been named. She was 91-year-old Ethel Plimmer, who died of her injuries in Auckland City Hospital. An investigation into that accident is continuing.