LATEST: Hawera police have released the name of the German woman killed in a collision involving a school bus yesterday afternoon. She was 20-year-old Larissa Amelie Sirch.
Miss Sirch had been working as an au pair in Taranaki.
Her death has been referred to the coroner.
Hawera police worked with Interpol to inform Miss Sirch's next-of-kin following a fatal accident along State Highway 3 yesterday which claimed her life and left a young girl critically injured.
................................ Radio NZ reported Hawera sergeant Ivan Smith said it looked as though the north-bound car had crossed the centre-line and driven on to the other side of the road. ................................