Third crash victim

Napier: A third person has died six days after a crash near Wairoa which had already claimed the lives of Fabian George Cook (33) and Freedom Rikael Morunga (21).

Police confirmed Wairoa man Jordan John Christopher Edwards (21) had also died from injuries sustained in the crash on State Highway 2 at Nuhaka, east of Wairoa, on June 29.

He died in hospital on July 5.