The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a bus carrying school children attending a kapa haka competition last year, killing a passenger in her vehicle, has been charged.
The crash, which occurred on Te Ngae Road in Rotorua at around 9.20pm on November 6, killed 23-year-old Teleia Thompson, who was a passenger in the car. Two others were critically injured.
This morning, police said a 24-year-old woman had been charged with dangerous driving causing death, and four counts of dangerous driving causing injury.
It comes after another passenger in the vehicle was charged with being a party to dangerous driving causing death, party to four counts of dangerous driving causing injury, and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
At the time of the crash, RNZ reported that the bus was carrying tamariki from Gisborne's Kaiti School. Two other people in the car were badly hurt, while a number of people on the bus suffered injuries.
They had competed at Te Mana Kuratahi – a kapa haka competition in Tauranga – and were on their way back to their accommodation in Rotorua.
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