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Police have released the name of a Kapiti Coast woman who died
when her car crashed with two St John's ambulance vehicles
yesterday.
She was 18-year-old Rhya Leanne Macready of
Paraparaumu.
A 48-year-old male relative of Macready who was a passenger in the
car remains in a critical condition at Waikato Hospital following
the crash at about 4:30pm yesterday.
Police are keen to hear from any witnesses to the crash in the
central North Island yesterday afternoon.
They said it appears Macready's car, heading towards Turangi on
State Highway 41, lost control, clipped the rear of an ambulance
and crashed head-on into a paramedic car.
Both the St John's ambulance and paramedic car were transporting
patients back to Taumarunui Hospital after a separate
accident.
Macready died at the scene.
A 65-year-old Taumarunui man, believed to be a passenger in the
ambulance, is in a serious but stable condition in the hospital's
high dependency unit.
A St John paramedic, a 50-year-old woman, is also in Waikato
Hospital where she is being treated for leg injuries. Her condition
is stable.
The crew of the front ambulance were unharmed.
The Fire Service said the roads were icy at the time of the
crash.
Witnesses can call Taupo police on (07) 378 6060
Horror week on roads
The death took the weekend road toll to two. The crash was
the second fatal accident at the weekend, the end of a horror week
which saw eight people die on the roads.
A 12-year-old girl died last night after a two-car head-on
collision on Kaipara Coast Highway, two kilometres north of
Helensville.
The girl's eight-year old sister is making a slow recovery after
the accident.
It is understood the girls, from Kaukapakapa School, were returning
home from a netball game when the collision happened.
The two sisters were rushed to Auckland's Starship Hospital and
their mother to Auckland City Hospital.
A hospital spokesperson said the eight-year-old girl had been moved
into a ward at Starship Hospital and was in a stable
condition.
The mother was in a stable condition in Auckland Hospital.
Police said the crash happened around 10.30am yesterday.
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