20 Nov 2020

Cracked Northland roads contributed to road deaths

From Midday Report, 12:19 pm on 20 November 2020

A coroner has found that a cracked road in Northland was a contributing factor to the death of two Spanish tourists in 2009.

Eva Fajula Rovira and Joan Roma Serra were killed when a Linfox truck crossed the centre line on State Highway One in Towai, north of Whangarei.

The state of the roads in Northland have come under scrutiny for years.

Māni Dunlop spoke to National's former Northland MP and former police officer, Matt King.