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Police identify four-year-old boy as victim of fatal car crash near Gisborne

March 16, 2020

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Police have identified a four-year-old as the person who died in a crash near Gisborne earlier this month.

Stephen Tuatini Grace-Aupouri of Gisborne died in a single-car crash on Whangara Road along State Highway 35 on March 3, police say.

Police have extended their sympathies to his family.

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