A teenager died after an accident at the Victoria Park skate park in Auckland. Photo / Steven McNicholl
A teenager is dead after a night-time accident at a central Auckland skate park.
A police spokesperson said emergency services attended the incident at 9.17pm in Victoria Park, Auckland central.
“It appears a 17-year-old skateboarder had been injured.
“He was taken to hospital, but sadly died. The death has been referred to the Coroner.”
Five years ago, the death of a 25-year-old man prompted safety changes at the Victoria Park skate park.
Razor wire was installed to stop people trying to skate down the wall of a structure linked to central Auckland’s motorways after Pitiphong Sangsirichat, 25, was seriously injured and died in hospital after an accident at the park.
A skating ramp at the park runs up to a sloping wall of a structure at the park. The structure is part of an emergency fire exit for people who need to get out of the motorway tunnel that passes underneath.
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