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Gideon Te Kahika came across his wife Genna’s crash on the Wellington Urban Motorway on Tuesday morning. The couple have two children, Gideon Jr, 16, and Tyler, 4.
A husband looking for his wife after she didn t return home from dropping her brother at work, came across her mangled car at a Wellington crash scene. Genna Te Kahika was driving brother Jeremy Hatley
to work around 4.20 on Tuesday morning when her vehicle was hit by another, which had travelled 10 kilometres the wrong way on State Highway 2 from Petone. The two occupants of the other vehicle died at the scene on the flyover between the Molesworth St and Aotea Quay on-ramps.
Alison Sheppard (
image attached)
received the Clinical Excellence award at Capital &
Coast DHB’s annual ‘Celebrating Our Success’ awards
for her work with the General Movements Assessment (GMA) –
one of three tools which, used together, are considered best
practice for early diagnosis of motor
disability.
“The GMA involves taking video footage
of an infant’s movements at specific ages – pre-term,
term, and around 12 weeks – which are then scored by a
specially trained team,” Alison said.
“The
patterns of movement quality over time provide us with
information about how the infant’s brain is
developing.”
It is recognised that early diagnosis
Watch: Part of the motorway is expected to remain closed for some hours. Credits: The AM Show
A car drove the wrong way on a Wellington motorway for almost 10 kilometres before the horror crash which killed its driver and passenger.
The crash occurred on Wellington s Urban Motorway in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Police confirmed later in the day that the car took a wrong turn onto the motorway at Cornish St in Petone then drove south in the northbound lane before smashing into a second vehicle driving north.
The passenger and driver of the car travelling the wrong way died at the scene.
The two people killed in this week’s Wellington wrong-way motorway crash were a father and son.
A driver travelled the wrong way for about 10 kilometres before colliding with an oncoming car in a crash which killed both occupants and left two critically injured on the Wellington Urban Motorway. The car entered the motorway and headed south after turning right from Cornish St in Petone. Both occupants were killed in the collision at 4.20am. Two others were in hospital in a critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon. Cornish St is a one-lane, one-way side street used as a turnoff from State Highway 2 for northbound cars heading to the Lower Hutt suburb of Korokoro. There are warning signs marking it as an exit from the highway.