Police can now release the names of the two people who died following a crash on State Highway One near Marton on Tuesday 15 October.
They were 65-year-old Peter John Neilson from Howick and 53-year-old Sahim Ali from Palmerston North.
Our thoughts are with their families at this difficult time.
Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.
ENDS
Issued by Police Media Centre