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Police have named the man killed in a car crash in Upper Hutt on Saturday morning.
He was Ajay Kirit Bhana, 19, of Lower Hutt.
The single-car crash happened on Akatarawa Rd at 10.20am on Saturday morning.
The dead man was a passenger in the car. The driver, a 20-year-old Lower Hutt man, was not injured.
Upper Hutt area commander Inspector Mike Hill said at the time that it appeared that speed or acceleration were factors in the crash.
It was one "that simply didn't need to happen", he said.
Lower Hutt police said today that they would still like to speak to anyone that might have seen the white Subaru Impreza travelling from Lower Hutt before the crash, or anyone who came across the accident scene.
In other weekend road crashes, a three-month-old baby was killed and three other members of her family seriously injured when the car they were in hit a tree near Gisborne during torrential rain early yesterday morning.
The family had been on a mercy dash to help the baby's grandparents who had broken down on the outskirts of Opotiki just before 6am.
They were nearly home again when the crash happened.
The baby died at the scene and her 29-year-old mother was flown to Waikato Hospital in a critical condition.
Her 50-year-old great-aunt is in intensive care in Gisborne Hospital, and the baby's father, who was driving the car, is stable in Gisborne Hospital.
A male motorcyclist was also killed yesterday in an accident near the intersection of Houhora Heads Rd and State Highway One, in Kaitaia.
Police said a pillion passenger was injured in the crash, about 2.30pm.
- NZPA
