Police name motorcyclist Craig Read after fatal Ngāruawāhia crash

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A man has died following a crash between a car and a motorcycle on October 1. Photo / Google Maps

A motorcyclist has died in hospital after a Ngāruawāhia crash earlier this month.

Police said on Saturday that 59-year-old Ngāruawāhia man, Craig Read, died from the injuries he sustained in a serious crash on October 1

Police said emergency services were called to the crash, between a car and a
motorcycle, on River Rd at 7am that day.

Read was taken to Waikato Hospital with critical injuries, where he died last weekend, police said today.