Coroner finds drink-driver to blame for double fatal crash in Hawke's Bay 10 Jan, 2021 11:12 PM 3 minutes to read Wiremu Armitage and Kirsty Parsons died after their vehicles collided on May 10, 2019. Photo / Paul Taylor Wiremu Armitage and Kirsty Parsons died after their vehicles collided on May 10, 2019. Photo / Paul Taylor Wiremu Armitage was almost five times over the legal drinking limit when he crashed into Kirsty Parsons, killing her and himself. Both Parsons, 26, and Armitage, 31, died after their vehicles collided on Taihape Rd, Omahu, on May 10, 2019. A coroner's report found that Armitage was solely to blame for the double fatal, after his truck crossed the centre line and collided head-on with Parsons' hatchback.