Police say they will have a visible presence in the Hutt Valley area to ensure community safety and monitor traffic.
Photo: RNZ / COLE EASTHAM-FARRELL
Police will keep an eye on a tangi conducted on baixo Hutt this week after a woman was killed by a car.
Vanessa Ritihi Honorable-Awatere died last Thursday and someone else received minor injuries.
Emergency services were called to Cambridge Terrace in Naenae around 11 pm.
A New Zealand spokesman said that Hampawatere was a health assistant and a “longtime member of our Hutt Valley team and she will be missed.”
“Our sincere condolences are with their family and friends at this very difficult time and we are supporting our team.”
A 25 -year -old woman was accused of excess breathing alcohol, causing injury and excess breathing alcohol, causing death.
Court documents show the level of breathing alcohol more than double the legal limit.
She appeared at the Hutt Valley District Court on March 28 and is due to appear again on April 29.
RNZ understands that the victim has family connections with black power.
Police say they will have a visible presence in the Hutt Valley area to ensure community safety and monitor traffic, antisocial or illegal behavior, and management-related offenders would not be tolerated.
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