22 Dec 2021

Police say road investigations changed after Tapanui crash

From Morning Report, 7:23 am on 22 December 2021

The police say they have fixed how they investigate fatal road crashes to make sure the fraught experience of two families in Otago is not repeated.

The families of Wayne Brenssell and Toby Waitokia had to fight for more than seven years to correct police reports that driver error caused the truck crash that killed them in 2013.

Police also say there is no evidence their original crash investigation report was wrong.

Phil Pennington went through more than a thousand pages of OIA documents looking into this.