Police name crash victims

Press, 26 June 1989, Page 14

Police name crash victims

PA Rotorua The Rotorua police have released the names of four Chinese tourists, three men and a woman, killed in a head-on collision between a rental car and a logging truck on Wednesday. They were Yui Ching Ivan Chan, aged 24, Ming Fai Kenneth Lau, aged 24, Wing Fai Kenneth Sau, aged 22, and Wai Yce Cindy Wong, aged 22. All four were employed by Cathay Pacific Airlines as cabin crew and were travelling through New Zealand while on a stopover. The accident happened near Barryville, 20km north-east of Ben-

neydale in the central North Island. The Rotorua police helped identify the four with the aid of fingerprints kept on company records and faxed from Hong Kong. Family members are expected to arrive from Hong Kong in the next few days. They would arrange funeral details and carry out a traditional ceremony at the scene of the accident, said Senior-Ser-geant Chris Douglas, of the Rotorua police. Earlier in the day four friends of the victims suffered minor injuries when they were involved in an-

other accident near Te Kuiti. The four Hong Kong women were travelling along the Waitomo Caves Road near Waitomo at 1.20p.m. when the driver lost control of the car and ran into a ditch. The women were taken to a motel where they tried to telephone ahead to tell their friends they would not arrive in Rotorua that evening, a St John ambulance spokesman said.