Thursday, 9 March 2017 - 2:13pm |
Canterbury

Name release of woman now deceased after crash on Monday

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Police are now in a position to release the name of a woman who died overnight from injuries sustained in a single vehicle crash in Canterbury on Monday.

She was 52-year-old Christine Ellen Rump, of Geraldine.

The vehicle she was in collided with a power pole on Farm Road, east of State Highway 1 between Geraldine and Temuka, around 8:45am on March 6.

Christine Rump was flown to Christchurch Hospital with serious injuries, but died in hospital just before midnight yesterday, March 8.

Police's sympathies are with her family at this difficult time.

ENDS

Issued by the Police Media Centre