3 Aug 2023

Mount Maunganui train fatality: 11yo named

7:46 pm on 3 August 2023
Unexplained death in Taita, Lower Hutt early on Sunday 26th January 2020.  A Police cordon and crime scene invetsigation tent were in place Monday 27th January 2020.

Photo: RNZ / Patrice Allen

An 11-year-old has been named as the young person who died when she was hit by a freight train in Mount Maunganui on 31 July.

Police say she was Jorja-Ray Smith of Mount Maunganui.

Her death has been referred to the coroner.

Police said they extend their sympathies to her loved ones.