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Chante Alissa Harmer and two of her young children were killed in a collision at an intersection near Ashburton in April 2019.
A survivor of a harrowing crash that claimed the lives of a 30-year-old mum and two of her children said she could still remember the “horrific sound as the windows smashed and the airbags went off one by one”. The woman’s statement was one of several read at the Ashburton District Court on Thursday during a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Chante Alissa Harmer, 30, her 8-month-old daughter, Wysdom Tapiata-Harmer, and 1-year-old son, Awa Tapiata-Harmer. Harmer and her children died in a mid-morning crash on April 1, 2019 when she drove her Holden through a give way sign and into the path of a ute at the intersection of Mitcham and Hepburns roads, north of Ashburton in Canterbury.