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Emergency services were called for the accident on Omihi Rd (State Highway 1) about four miles south of the Greta Valley settlement just before 5:30 a.m. Thursday. (File photo).
One person died and one of the main highways north of Canterbury was closed for a time after a morning accident.
Emergency services were called to Omihi Rd (State Highway 1) about four miles south of the Greta Valley settlement, just before 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
New Zealand Fire and Emergency spokeswoman Lyn Crosson said early reports suggested a car had hit a tree, trapping a person and blocking the road.
Crews from Amberley, Waipara and Scargill were dispatched to the scene and the person is believed to have sustained serious injuries, he said.
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A police spokeswoman later confirmed that the person had died in the accident.
Things understands that a man from the Omihi area was killed in the accident.
San Juan was also sent to the place.
A spokesperson for the Christchurch Transportation Operations Centers said the accident had closed the road to traffic between Scargill Valley Rd and SH7. The detours were in place for a time before reopening again shortly before 11 a.m.
The fatal accident occurs just over two weeks after another on the same stretch of road.
Tribesmen Merc Papa-Hugh Lei-Tama Maumasi-Rihari, 21, was killed instantly after his Harley-Davidson crashed into an oncoming car on Omihi Rd, approximately 1.5 kilometers to the south. from Greta Valley, at approximately 7.50 am
Maumasi-Rihari, a scaffolding builder from Auckland, was one of approximately 80 members of the Tribesmen gang from around the country who came to Christchurch as part of a national gathering. They were heading to Picton to catch a ferry back to the North Island when the accident occurred.
There have been at least 12 other crashes within a 900-meter stretch of Omihi Rd, just north of Burrow Rd, since January 2000, according to crash data from the New Zealand Transportation Agency. Of them, one was serious, four were minor and the rest were not injuries.
There have been at least 27 deaths on Canterbury’s roads so far this year, 17 fewer than at the same time last year. Nationwide, 276 people have died on the roads so far this year, 20 fewer than at the same time last year.
