2 Oct 2014

One dead in West Coast crash

7:55 pm on 2 October 2014

One person is dead and two others are in Greymouth Hospital after two vehicles collided in the Lower Buller Gorge, on State Highway 6, this afternoon.

A police spokesperson said the crash happened on a bridge at 3.30pm.

One person was confirmed to have died and two other had been taken to Greymouth hospital. A fourth person was uninjured.

The road was expected to be closed until about 9pm, the spokesperson said.

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