The two people killed in this week’s Wellington wrong-way motorway crash were a father and son.
A driver travelled the wrong way for about 10 kilometres before colliding with an oncoming car in a crash which killed both occupants and left two critically injured on the Wellington Urban Motorway. The car entered the motorway and headed south after turning right from Cornish St in Petone. Both occupants were killed in the collision at 4.20am. Two others were in hospital in a critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon. Cornish St is a one-lane, one-way side street used as a turnoff from State Highway 2 for northbound cars heading to the Lower Hutt suburb of Korokoro. There are warning signs marking it as an exit from the highway.
A driver travelled the wrong way for about 10 kilometres on State Highway 1and 2 before colliding with an oncoming car in a crash which killed two and left two critically injured
A driver passed at least five signs warning them not to turn into the traffic flow on State Highway 2 before they and their passenger were killed in a crash on Tuesday morning.