A 27-year-old Israeli woman has been charged with causing the death of an English couple in a crash near Mossburn yesterday.
Senior Sergeant Richard McPhail this afternoon named the dead couple as Robert Anthony Hindle, 73, and his 64-year-old wife Ann Hindle.
The pair were on holiday in New Zealand when their rental car collided head-on with another vehicle on a sweeping bend on State Highway 97, known as Mossburn-Five Rivers Rd, about 3km east of Mossburn, about 12.05pm.
Police said Mr Hindle died at the scene of the accident. Mrs Hindle was flown to Southland Hospital, in Invercargill, but died about four hours later.
Mr McPhail said the Israeli tourists in the second vehicle, a man and a woman both in their 20s, were also taken to Southland Hospital but not seriously injured.
The road, a section of the popular tourist route from Queenstown to Milford Sound, was closed until about 6pm as serious crash investigators examined the scene.
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