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Poor visibility at a Canterbury intersection may have contributed to the death of a mother of seven and two of her children in a crash in 2019, a coroner's inquest has heard.
The coroner has heard how a car hit a mother of seven and her two children, in a mid-Canterbury horror crash The coroner has heard how a car hit a mother of seven and her two children, in a mid-Canterbury horror crash 22 April 2021 Chante Harmer and her two youngest children died after their car collided with another vehicle in 2019 near Ashburton. An inquest began this morning in Ashburton before Coroner Marcus Elliot. The court heard Harmer failed to give way and collided with the other vehicle Police say there's evidence she was braking. Senior Constable John McIntyre says the Give Wa...
STUFF Chante Alissa Harmer and two of her young children were killed in a collision at an intersection near Ashburton in April 2019. A survivor of a harrowing crash that claimed the lives of a 30-year-old mum and two of her children said she could still remember the “horrific sound as the windows smashed and the airbags went off one by one”. The woman’s statement was one of several read at the Ashburton District Court on Thursday during a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Chante Alissa Harmer, 30, her 8-month-old daughter, Wysdom Tapiata-Harmer, and 1-year-old son, Awa Tapiata-Har...