The names of those killed in Monday's triple-fatal crash near Te Araroa have been released.
They are 43-year-old woman Tiny Tibble, 14-year-old boy Ashton-Lee Rangihuna, and 10-year-old girl Ana-Roimata Rangihuna.
The trio were killed in a crash yesterday morning
Lance Rangihuna - the woman's partner and children's father - died in a crash a month earlier.
Ashton-Lee had paid tribute to his father as "a real hard worker and the best dad I could ever ask for".