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Update: Fatal crash, Port Chalmers

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Police investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash on Wickliffe Road on Saturday 31 January have arrested one person.

A 24-year-old man has appeared in the Dunedin District Court today on charges of driving dangerously causing death and failing to stop to ascertain injury or death after crash.

Emergency services were notified of the crash around 9.10pm that night. One person sadly died at the scene and two others were injured, one seriously and one sustained minor injury.

The investigation into the crash remains ongoing.

ENDS

Issued by Police Media Centre