Third person dies after horror Waihola crash

A "well-respected accountant" from Whakatāne is the third person to have died following a crash at Waihola.

Emergency services were called to the State Highway 1 crash, between the intersections with Titri and Bungards Rds, at 12.15pm on Monday.

Te Kuiti couple Andrew Francis Sheehan and Kreshar Dannielle Sheehan were killed following the collision.

Their children were taken to Dunedin Hospital with critical injuries. Their fourth child was not travelling with th

em.

A third person, W

hakatāne accountant John Banbury, died on Tuesday.

His former partner Jane Tyson told the New Zealand Herald no one knew at this stage what caused the crash.

"We’re terribly sad that he has succumbed to his injuries.

"He was a very well-respected accountant, he was tremendously good at his job. He was a great fisherman and hunter and played golf and all that sort of stuff, loved the outdoors."

Banbury was the former managing director of Prideaux & Co and sold his practice to Rural Accountants Limited Partnership in 2018.Rural Accountants’ director Shannon Harnett told the Herald Banbury was a "really well-liked, really respected businessman in Whakatāne.

"We’d like to express our condolences to both of the families. It’s such a tragedy, it’s incredibly sad."

Emergency services were called to the State Highway 1 crash, between the intersections with Titri and Bungards Rds, at 12.15pm on Monday.

Te Kuiti couple Andrew Francis Sheehan and Kreshar Dannielle Sheehan were killed following the collision.

Their children were taken to Dunedin Hospital with critical injuries. Their fourth child was not travelling with them.

A third person, Whakatāne accountant John Banbury, died on Tuesday.

His former partner Jane Tyson told the New Zealand Herald no one knew at this stage what caused the crash.

“We’re terribly sad that he has succumbed to his injuries.

“He was a very well-respected accountant, he was tremendously good at his job. He was a great fisherman and hunter and played golf and all that sort of stuff, loved the outdoors.”

Banbury was the former managing director of Prideaux & Co and sold his practice to Rural Accountants Limited Partnership in 2018.Rural Accountants’ director Shannon Harnett told the Herald Banbury was a “really well-liked, really respected businessman in Whakatāne.

“We’d like to express our condolences to both of the families. It’s such a tragedy, it’s incredibly sad.”