A mother-of-five who died in a single-car crash in Christchurch has been named by police.<\/p>\n
Miriata Lee Houkamau, 34, of Burnside, died in hospital after crashing into a fence on Grahams Rd, Burnside, on April 27. She was the only person in the car, police said.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the scene between Cranbrook and Wayside Aves about 10.50pm.<\/p>\n
“The driver \u2026 was taken to hospital where she sadly died,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Police have since been trying to find a witness to the crash.<\/p>\n
Houkamau’s family and friends have reacted to media reports of the crash with sadness.<\/p>\n
One person said on social media: \u201cLove you, my sister\u201d.<\/p>\n
Another mourner said: \u201cFor the short time I knew Miriata, she was always cracking jokes and happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Houkamau was a mother of five,\u00a0The Press\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n
Her funeral was held in early May.<\/p>\n
Police released CCTV images of another vehicle at the scene, a witness who stopped but then left.<\/p>\n
The witness in a white SUV turned left onto Grahams Rd from Wairakei Rd and initially stopped when the crash happened, but left before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n
“Police are eager to know the registration and speak to the male driver as we believe he may be able to help in our investigation,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“If you know the registration of the vehicle, or are the driver, please contact police.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother-of-five who died in a single-car crash in Christchurch has been named by police. Miriata Lee Houkamau,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-467750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}