Police named the victim 60-year-old Vanessa Ritihia Houpapa. Photo / 123RF
By RNZ
A woman who died after being hit by a car in Lower Hutt’s Naenae last week has been named by police.
She was local woman, 60-year-old Vanessa Ritihia Houpapa.
Emergency services were called to Cambridge Terrace at 11pm last Thursday, where she died at the scene.
Police said they extended their condolences to her family and friends.
A 25-year-old woman was charged with excess breath alcohol causing injury and death, and is to next appear in the Hutt Valley District Court on April 29.
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He later repeatedly rammed a police vehicle with the car he had stolen.