Telford Rural Polytechnic staff and students will gather on Friday to farewell a North Island student who died just weeks after starting an equine studies course in the South.
A service for 17-year-old Miemie Cloete will be held at the City Impact Church, in Balclutha, at 11am, at the same time her family holds her funeral service in Rotorua.
Miss Cloete died in Dunedin Hospital on Saturday after failing to regain consciousness after being in a head-on car crash on the Balclutha-Owaka highway on Thursday night.
Telford chief executive Jonathan Walmisley said yesterday Miss Cloete's parents had agreed to the Balclutha service being held at the same time as their daughter's funeral.
It was too early to say how the Balclutha ceremony would be staged but all staff and students were expected to attend.
Miss Cloete was one of five female equine course students in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
The names of the other students have not been released yet.
Two of them remain in intensive care.
One was placed in intensive care yesterday after developing a post-surgery infection, while the other remains in an induced coma.
The two other students are believed to be in a general ward and are expected to be discharged later this week.
