Soldier charged over fatal unimog crash

A soldier has been charged with killing another driver after an army unimog crash.

The 22-year-old soldier, based at Linton army camp, faces one charge of careless driving causing death and two of careless driving causing injury.

The charges follow a collision between his unimog truck and a Foodstuffs supermarket supply truck on State Highway 1 near Hunterville on February 7.

The truck driver Shane Ratahi, 44, from Palmerston, was killed and the defendant and two other soldiers in the Unimog were injured.

The soldier is due to appear in Marton District Court on August 16.

- NZPA