30 Jan 2009

Men named after fatal crashes

12:27 pm on 30 January 2009

Police have named three men killed in two car crashes in South Taranaki.

Stuart Smith, 30, from Britain, died when his stationwagon hit a fence and skidded into a tree on Kahui Road, at about midnight on Thursday.

Two other men died at 2.15am on Friday when their car struck a bridge on State Highway 45 just outside Rahotu.

They were Wayne Roy Peters, 33, from Pungarehu and Benjamin Taylor, 25, also from Pungarehu.