Police have named the person who died following a car fire on State Highway 3 on Boxing Day.
He was Kulbir Singh, 30, of Auckland.
Singh was critically injured in the fire at Mokau in Taranaki, which emergency services were alerted to at 7.20am on 26 December.
He was airlifted to Waikato Hospital, but later died.
Police said inquiries into the circumstances of the fire were ongoing.