One dead after three motorcycles crash into tanker

At about 13.35 p.m. on Thursday the 15th of January 2009, Police attended a motor vehicle crash on Te Kawa Road, approximately 350 metres west of State Highway 3, Otorohanga Rural.
The crash occurred when four west bound motorcyclists rounded a corner as a tanker was exiting a farm drive way onto the road.
The four motorcyclists were riding in a line the last one was able to stop short of the tanker but the other three were unable to avoid crashing.
One of the motorcyclists, John Robin Hall a 43 year old Te Awamutu man, died at the scene.
One motorcyclist was taken to Waikato Hospital.

The Police Serious Crash Unit is investigating the crash.

Warren SHAW
Sergeant
Otorohanga