By RNZ
The sole survivor of a car crash that killed five teenage boys near Timaru will be sentenced for dangerous driving causing death when he appears in the High Court today.
Tyreese Stuart Fleming, 20, was driving the overloaded car when it smashed into a power pole with such force the car split in two in Washdyke on 7 August last year.
His passengers: Andrew Goodger, 15, Niko Hill, 15, Javarney Drummond, 15, Jack Wallace, 16, and Joseff McCarthy, 16, were killed instantly.