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Hamiora Te Kira and Kararaina Te Rupe died in a car crash on Macraes Rd, near Palmerston, Otago, in August 2020.
A learner driver had consumed cannabis and alcohol before crashing her car on a rural Otago road killing her two friends – the parents of four young children. . Annika Natalie Ludlow, 19, of Palmerston, wept as Judge Jim Large sentenced her to 12 months’ home detention and disqualified her from driving for three years when she appeared in the Oamaru District Court on Thursday. She had pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death while driving with excess blood alcohol. Judge Large said Ludlow consumed cannabis and alcohol before inviting Hamiora Te Kira, 27, and Kararaina Te Rupe, 28, for a joyride in her new Honda Civic on August 29, 2020.
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Reuben Jacob Allan, 44, has been convicted and disqualified from driving on three counts of causing injury by carelessly operating a vehicle.
A man who seriously injured three friends in a vehicle crash on his Oamaru farm has failed in his bid for a discharge without conviction. Reuben Jacob Allan, 44, was disqualified from driving for six months when he appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Oamaru District Court on Wednesday. He had pleaded guilty to three counts of causing injury by carelessly operating a vehicle. Allan had been entertaining his friends with eating, drinking, and duck shooting when he lost control of the ute they were travelling in, the vehicle rolling completely over before coming to rest on its side, overnight July 25, 2020.
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Reuben Jacob Allan, 44, has pleaded guilty to three counts of causing injury by carelessly operating a vehicle.
Three friends came away from a day out eating, drinking, and duck shooting with serious injuries after their host flipped the vehicle they were travelling in. Reuben Jacob Allan was entertaining friends at his Oamaru farm when he turned his ute sharply in pursuit of a hare, losing control of the vehicle as it rolled completely over before coming to rest on its side, overnight July 25, 2020. Allan, 44, pleaded guilty to three counts of causing injury by carelessly operating a vehicle when he appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Timaru District Court on Tuesday.