Police have this afternoon named the two women who died following a two-car crash at an intersection on State Highway 3 in Taranaki late last month.
They were 49-year-old Kylie-Jane Rebecca Savage, known as Janey Hardy, from Eltham and 47-year-old Claire Teresa Joy Gatenby from Palmerston North.
The women, each driving their respective cars, were the only people involved in the crash around 6am on January 31.
The collision is believed to have occurred after a "northbound car has crossed the centre line and collided head on with the southbound vehicle" near the intersection with Mountain Rd, police said at the time.
"The northbound vehicle was then caught alight... and when fire and police has arrived it's been fully engulfed."
"Our thoughts are with their family and friends at this difficult time," police said this afternoon.
An investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.
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