A 14-year-old Tauranga girl who died in Starship Hospital after a crash has been named.
She was Ngawaira Wanata Kake. She died on August 17, nine days after the car she travelling in hit a tree on the intersection of Windsor and Bellevue Rds.
Her fellow occupant has been discharged from Tauranga Hospital, a senior police officer said.
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Tributes, flowers, photographs, and crosses have been erected around the tree the car crashed into.
Police inquiries into the cause of the crash continue.
Police extended their sincere sympathies to Ngawaira's extended whanau and all of those people who were close to her.