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Gideon Te Kahika encountered his wife Genna’s accident on the Wellington Urban Highway on Tuesday morning. The couple have two sons, Gideon Jr and Tyler, 4.
A husband searching for his wife after she failed to return home after dropping off his brother at work, found his car wrecked at the scene of the Wellington accident.
Genna Te Kahika was driving brother Jeremy Hatley work around 4:20 Tuesday morning when his vehicle was hit by another, who had traveled 10 miles the wrong way on State Highway 2 from Petone.
The two occupants of the other vehicle were killed at the overpass scene between the Molesworth St and Aotea Quay access ramps.
Genna Te Kahika, a mother of two and a child care worker, was seriously injured, along with her brother. Both are being treated in the ICU at Wellington Regional Hospital.
Her husband, Gideon Te Kahika, said he had gone back to sleep after she left their home in Brooklyn at 4 a.m.
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At 6am, he thought it strange that she hadn’t returned and tried to reach her on her cell phone, but she had left it at home.
Wondering if she had run out of gas on the highway, Te Kahika set off with Tyler, the couple’s 4-year-old son, to try to find her.
“We went down to the Terrace Tunnel and saw that the tunnel was closed, and I was like ‘oh what the fuck!'”
He then drove to Hutt Rd and realized that there had been an accident when he saw the emergency services.
“I went up to Johnsonville to turn around and come back down the highway, and I just hoped it wasn’t his car … Then I walked over and saw the car.
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Genna Te Kahika, a mother of two and a child care worker, was seriously injured in the accident. She is pictured with her husband and son Tyler.
Te Kahika said she stopped on the freeway, jumped out of the car, and started asking where Genna and Hatley were.
“The policeman told me ‘Come here! Come here!’ and I was like ‘Tell me now! They are dead? Then he said ‘No, they’re in the hospital’ and it was a relief, but I didn’t know what the injuries were, so I wasn’t really sure what I was going to see when I saw them, ”he said.
Te Kahika said she later “shot him to the hospital.”
The brothers suffered serious injuries but escaped without a scratch on their head or face, Te Kahika said.
He believed that their seat belts, which had left marks on their bodies from the impact, were what had saved their lives.
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Genna Te Kahika was seriously injured in a head-on collision in Wellington on Tuesday, in which two were killed.
His wife underwent six-hour surgery after suffering a broken hip, fibia, leg, ankle and fracture “almost every bone in the foot,” Te Kahika said.
Hatley underwent two surgeries and suffered broken leg, several broken ribs and damage to an artery in the heart.
“The doctors said they will be fine, it will just be a long recovery,” Te Kahika said.
“Yesterday was quite stressful and this morning everything was assimilating.”
The cause of the accident remains unknown, and police investigations are still ongoing.
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The cause of the accident remains unknown, and police say investigations into the circumstances are ongoing.
On Wednesday, a police spokeswoman said the deaths had been referred to the coroner.
Another family member, Ruby Te Kahika, visited Genna in the hospital on Tuesday and was surprised at how responsive she was.
“She is as tough as”.
A Givealittle page created to raise money for the siblings has raised over $ 2,200.
