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      Home > News > National > Upper North Island

    Police are appealing for information on crash that left a Whakatane pedestrian dead

    Police are appealing for information on crash that left a Whakatane pedestrian dead


    Emergency services were called to the intersection of State Highway 30 and Thornton Road about 4pm yesterday.

    The pedestrian died in Waikato Hospital this morning.

    Police want to hear from anyone with helpful information or people with dashcam crash footage.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

     Other Upper North Island News
     16 Feb: Police say it could take some time to formally identify a body, washed up on Mahia's Mahanga Beach, near Wairoa
     15 Feb: A large structure fire, has closed a stretch of State Highway 2 in Wairoa
     15 Feb: A person has died and three people have been hospitalised after a single vehicle crash in Whangarei's Ruatangata West
     14 Feb: Rotorua's getting another chance to showcase itself this weekend
     14 Feb: A state of emergency has been declared for the Otorohanga District in the Waikato - which has been inundated with widespread flooding and slips overnight
     13 Feb: Police are advising motorists in the Waikato area, including Te Awamutu, Otorohanga, and Waipa Districts, to stay off the roads this evening due to heavy rainfall and flooding
     13 Feb: State Highway 31 and State Highway 39 in the Waikato's Otorohanga District, are both currently blocked due to significant flooding and slips
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