Police can now release the names of the two people who died in a crash on State Highway 29A in Tauranga on Friday afternoon.
They were Kenny McRae, a 52-year-old man from Tauranga, and Leigh Antoinette Rhodes, a 60-year-old also from Tauranga.
Police extend their sympathies to the familes.
We also want to thank members of the public for their assistance with providing information regarding the crash.
Inquiries into the cause of the crash are continuing.
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Issued by the Police Media Centre