Name released

Oamaru: Police have released the name of the elderly man who died after his car and a logging truck collided at Reidston on Monday.

He was Hugh Chalmers Paton (87), of Reidston.

Mr Paton was coming out of his driveway just after 1pm and police believed he failed to see the southbound logging truck.

He was flown to Dunedin Hospital by the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter but died later that afternoon.

 

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