Woman and two children remain in hospital after crash on Napier-Taupō Road

Thursday, 2 July 2020

A woman and two children remain in hospital after suffering injuries in a crash on the Napier-Taupō Road on Wednesday.

The woman, in her 40s, and two children under 10 are all in a stable condition in Hawke’s Bay Hospital.

A fourth person, a man in his 50s, was discharged from hospital on Wednesday night.

Emergency services were called to the crash after a car hit a power pole near Te Haroto at 4.40pm.

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The road, SH5, was closed for four hours as a power pole and lines were being cleared from the crash site.

The road had been closed between the snow gates at Eskdale and the gates east of the Mitre Ten complex in Taupō, with cars travelling on SH5 being turned back by police officers.

The incident followed the death of ten-year-old Teang Atauea, who died in Hawke's Bay Hospital after a crash on the same road on June 23.

Teang was one of five people injured in the single-vehicle crash at the intersection of SH5 and Mcvicar Rd.

From December 2019 to May this year, seven people had died on the Napier-Taupō road and that number continued to rise.