A teenager is facing a number of charges after a fatal crash that killed a seasonal worker on the Napier-Taupō Road last year. The driver, who has interim name suppression, was travelling in a van with other Recognised Seasonal Employee (RSE) workers on October 19 last year and collided with a tanker near Tarawera. He appeared before a registrar at the Napier District Court on Thursday morning. HB Rescue Helicopter Trust The site of a fatal crash involving a truck and van near Tarawera, on the Napier-Taupo Road on October 18, 2020. The occupants of the van, 10 Samoan RSE workers and one New Zealander, were travelling from Hawke’s Bay to Taupō for a holiday.

Source: Stuff March 25, 2021 00:00 UTC