Family of victim stay in hospital

The family of a 5-year-old Oamaru girl killed near Moeraki on Saturday remained in Dunedin Hospital last night.

Ruby Jay Marris' parents, Tristan and Kimberley Marris, were in a stable condition in the orthopaedic ward and her sisters, Sophie and Georgia, were also stable, a Dunedin Hospital spokeswoman said.

Ruby was killed when a Ford Ranger smashed into the Marris family's station wagon.

A 32-year-old Chinese tourist appeared in the Dunedin District Court on Monday facing a charge of dangerous driving causing death and five charges of dangerous driving causing injury.

He entered no pleas and was remanded to March 13. Two UK tourists injured when the vehicle in which they were travelling was struck by a Chinese tourist's car near Queenstown on Saturday also remain in hospital. Paul Whitmell was stable in Dunedin Hospital last night and his wife, Rosa, was in a stable condition in Southland Hospital.

• A 26-year-old German man has been charged with careless use of a vehicle causing death after a crash near Christchurch. Stephanie Anne Ellis (54), of Leeston, died in the crash near Springston on Monday.

Witnesses alleged the German's Honda did not stop at the intersection of Goulds and Leeston Rds.

• The driver killed in a collision with a stock truck north of Christchurch last week was a Chinese tourist in a rental vehicle, police said yesterday.

Ying-Hua Zhou (29), who was holidaying in New Zealand, died after the rental car he was driving crossed the centre line and collided with the oncoming stock truck on State Highway 1, about 10km south of Greta Valley, on February 18.

• The man killed in a two-vehicle crash in Templeton on February 18 has been named.

He was Fu-Hwa Ju (66), of Taiwan, who was on holiday with family. Witnesses said the vehicle in which Mr Ju was travelling did not stop at a stop sign.

• A rental vehicle driven by a Chinese national collided with another rental vehicle in Arrowtown on Monday, police said.

Sergeant Mark Gill, of Queenstown, said the 40-year-old Chinese man failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Malaghan's Rd and Arrowtown-Lake Hayes Rd about 10am. No-one was injured.

• French tourist Stephane Yuan Mazerat (29) yesterday admitted three charges after a serious crash at Awakino, Waikato, last month left six injured.

- Additional reporting The New Zealand Herald

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