The stepfather of All Black legend Michael Jones was killed in a car crash in Auckland early yesterday - the second time in four years that a road accident has plunged the Jones family into mourning.
James Edwin Wearne-Jones, aged 68, of Glen Eden, died when the car he was driving and another car collided at 5.30 am on Great North Rd in Waterview.
Michael Jones, who played his last game for the All Blacks in 1998, is expected to return home tomorrow from a trip to Italy.
Jones' mother, Maina Wearne-Jones, was killed in a road crash in November 1997. The 64-year-old was in Kenya for a stepson's wedding when the four-wheel-drive vehicle she was in crashed and rolled.
On that occasion Jones was also overseas - in Fiji on holiday - when told of the death.
Mrs Wearne-Jones was killed only hours after she featured in a repeat screening of a This is Your Life television tribute to her world-famous son, acclaimed as one of the greatest All Blacks of all time.
The crash that killed Jones' stepfather occurred near the Oakleigh Ave intersection on the Waterview straight. Mr Wearne-Jones died at the scene.
The other driver, Nathan Robert Martin, died in Auckland Hospital after emergency surgery.
Michael Jones mourns again
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