A woman from the People's Republic of China who was killed in a road crash near Palmerston North at the weekend has been identified as Jingjing Zhang.
The 26-year-old who was living in Palmerston North and studying at Massey University.
Miss Zhang was driving a Mitsubishi Mirage around 8pm on Saturday night (3 September) when she appears to have lost control on a right hand bend and collided with a wooden fence post. The crash happened in Makerua, two kilometres north of the intersection of State Highways 56 and 57, near Tokomaru.
No other vehicles were involved.
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