Funeral in Bay of Plenty for teen killed in Oamaru crash

Police at the scene of the crash. PHOTO: HAMISH MACLEAN
Police at the scene of the crash. PHOTO: HAMISH MACLEAN
A funeral will be held in Papamoa, in the Bay of Plenty, today for a teenage boy who died in a crash in North Otago last week.

Michael Shelford Mauheni (17) was a passenger in a car that crashed into a wall and caught fire in Oamaru on Wednesday.

The crash killed Shelford and  Kaylem Rayne Webb-Hirst (16) and seriously injured the driver of the vehicle.

In a death notice in the Bay of Plenty Times, Shelford was described as the ‘‘most favourite nephew of all his aunties, uncles and the cousin of all cousins, and friends of all friends’’.

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