An American tourist out for a jog in Waikato on Saturday morning made a grisly find when he spotted a badly damaged car with a dead man inside.
Earl David Karaka Kingi, 22, was found by the tourist inside his crashed car about 7.45am just north of Otorohanga's town centre, Senior Sergeant Jeff Penno said.
"We're still working to establish the time of the crash. However, Mr Kingi left Cambridge about 4.30am and was expected at work about 5am.''
The crash was still being investigated, but initial indications were Mr Kingi failed to make a slight bend, and his car left the road and hit a tree.
The car then went down a bank and came to rest in an industrial yard.
