The names of the three people who were killed in a horrific Southland crash have been released.
A baby and toddler survived the "horrendous" accident on Sunday.
The people who died were 28-year-olds Jesse Phillip Ariki Douglas Shortland and Samantha Jayde Shortland, both of Invercargill, and 22-year-old Marina Liebl of Germany.
The woman who pulled the crying baby from the car said nothing could be done for the adults.
Fairfax reported the farmer noticed a tanker's hazard lights from her home late last night, realised there had been a crash and then went straight to the scene.
When she arrived, a two-year-old boy was cuddled into a fireman and a baby was crying from the wreck of a car.
"I said 'all right I will get [the baby] out'."
"The best thing to do was just to keep calm and comfort the baby."
Ms Harvey sat in a firecrew ute with the baby until, along with the toddler, they were flown to Southland Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
"You get in there and you do what you can because if that had happened to me I would hope that someone would look after my kids," she said.
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