Double fatal on Malaghans Road
Two people died in a two-vehicle crash on Malaghans Road, Queenstown, last night.
Emergency services rushed to the scene at 10pm, including three ambulances, a helicopter and local fire crews.
Police have this afternoon confirmed that two people were found dead at the scene, on the section of road between Dalefield Road and Hunter Road.
Five others were injured.
"The Serious Crash Unit has conducted a scene examination and the road reopened about midday," a police spokesperson says.
"Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing."
Hato Hone St John media coordinator Siobhan Campbell told media this morning that ambulance staff treated one person with moderate injuries and four with minor injuries, after the two-vehicle crash.
We'll publish more information as we have it.
It's the second fatal crash on Malaghans Rd, which runs between Arthurs Point and Arrowtown, in four years. Allanah Megan Walker, 17,died in August 2020, in a crash at a similar time of night, 9.20pm.
She was the passenger in a Subaru car hit in a head-on collision. The driver, her boyfriend Astin Anthony Caldwell, suffered serious injuries.
Queenstown woman Tully Isabel Robinson, then 22, was sentenced to four-and-a-half months' home detention after pleading guilty to two charges of aggravated driving causing death and aggravated driving causing injury.
Robinson was speeding in a Toyota Land Cruiser, on the wrong side of the road, while affected by alcohol, and had been messaging on her phone.
