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Name of Kaiapoi crash victim released
Christchurch Police have released the name of the man killed in a motor vehicle crash near Kaiapoi on Friday.
He was David Robert Hill, aged 42, of Christchurch.
Mr Hill was the driver of a utility vehicle which collided with a truck at the Lineside Road motorway off-ramp near Kaiapoi at approximately 11.15am on Friday.
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