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Police release names of Waverley crash victims

Police release names of Waverley crash victims
Police have named the seven people who lost their lives in the tragic crash in Waverley, south Taranaki on Wednesday morning. Two cars collided head-on on State Highway 3 north of Waverley at 11:11am. Four people died on impact, two died at the scene 
Flowers near the site of the crash on SH3.
Flowers near the site of the crash on SH3. Photo credit: Newshub

Police have named the seven people who lost their lives in the tragic crash in Waverley, south Taranaki on Wednesday morning.

Two cars collided head-on on State Highway 3 north of Waverley at 11:11am.

Four people died on impact, two died at the scene and one person died in hospital on Thursday morning.

In the car travelling north were 76-year-old Rosalie Porteous, 80-year-old Ian Porteous, 84-year-old Ora Keene and 79-year-old Brenda Williams from Waverley.

In the other car were 28-year-old Jeremy Thompson, eight-week-old Shady Thompson and eight-year-old Nivek Madams from Whanganui. They were southbound.

The sole survivor of the crash, understood to be Ani Madams, is in Wellington Hospital in a critical condition.

She was the front-seat passenger of the southbound car.

Newshub. 

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