Weekend crash victims named

Wreckage of acar involved in a fatal accident on the Desert Road on Saturday. Photo / Herald on Sunday

Police have named the two men killed in a crash on the Desert Road at the weekend.

They were Kuljinder Singh, a shop assistant, and Jagroop Singh, a student. Both were aged 22 and living in Papatoetoe. They are not related.

The crash happened at around 7.45am on Saturday when a Toyota sedan car travelling south collided with a truck and trailer unit heading north.

Kuljinder, the driver of the Toyota, and Jagroop, the front seat passenger, died at the scene.

The truck driver from Palmerston North was unhurt.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Meanwhile, an 11-year-old girl killed in a South Canterbury car crash yesterday has been named.

Kate Ailsa Leslie died in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of State Highway 8 and Prohibition Rd at Cave, about 32km northwest of Timaru, at about 7pm yesterday.

Her death brought the weekend road toll to six, after an earlier Canterbury crash, the double-fatal crash on the Desert Road and another double-fatal in the Waikato on Saturday.

- NZ Herald staff, NZPA