All that remains to indicate where three Hong Kong tourists died near Luggate on Thursday afternoon are a few lines of green paint and a long stretch of tyre skid marks.
Motorists were nevertheless treating with caution the intersection of State Highway 6 and Shortcut Rd (SH8A) yesterday.
In the short period the Otago Daily Times spent there, trucks and cars travelling down the Luggate Hill and through the intersection were well within the 100kmh speed limit.
And cars entering the highway from Shortcut Rd - following the path of the tourist rental van hit by a truck and trailer unit - were stopping for quite lengthy periods, when all they were required to do was give way.
Police have released the names of those who died in the rental van.
They were: the driver, Wing Fai (Allan) Chan (60) and the two female passengers, Kwai Tei (Connie) Chong (61) and Yin Wan Ng (56), all from Hong Kong.
The fourth passenger, a 59-year-old Hong Kong man, was recovering well in Dunedin Hospital yesterday.
ATV English News reporter Raymond Yeung said the crash survivor was Hong Kong's deputy chief fire officer until he retired in 2012. His twin daughters were on their way to New Zealand.
Police relieving area commander Otago Rural Inspector Olaf Jensen said the four were part of a party of nine travelling in two separate vehicles.
He declined to say how long the group had been in New Zealand.
The van in which the tourists were travelling was turning on to SH6, towards Wanaka, when it was hit by the truck, owned by Beckers Transport Ltd, of Oturehua.
A spokesman for the company said yesterday it would not be commenting on the crash.
But several hours after Thursday's crash, Brandon Bell, who identified himself on the ODT Facebook page as a co-worker of the truck driver, said the accident had been a ''huge shock'' to all his colleagues.
''This goes to show that something needs to be done about tourist drivers,'' Mr Bell wrote.
New Zealand Transport Agency Otago senior network manager John Jarvis said the intersection did not have a long history of crashes.
A crash in August last year in which a male cyclist was seriously injured was the only other incident in the past five years.
The NZTA had carried out improvements to the intersection in 2002 following a ''lot of close calls'' but no major accidents.
''We were uncomfortable about it at the time. It wasn't ideal,'' Mr Jarvis said.
New lighting was installed, along with an ''advance'' give-way sign set back from the corner and concrete islands on Shortcut Rd/SH8A to stop motorists ''straight-lining'' the intersection.
''[The islands] channel the motorists into the intersection on [State Highway] 8A on the approach,'' he said.
''When they do stop to give way, they get much better visibility because they're perpendicular to the intersection rather than at an angle.''
The NZTA would carry out its own investigation into the crash, Mr Jarvis said.
Luggate Community Association president Geoff Taylor, who, until recently, lived on Shortcut Rd for many years, said visibility at the intersection was ''good from all directions'' and he was unaware of any local concerns about it being a hazard.
Inspector Jensen said the Serious Crash Unit work at the scene was completed yesterday but police could not comment until its investigation was completed.
