29 Oct 2025

Three overseas visitors killed in crashes in Waikato named

12:51 pm on 29 October 2025
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Photo: RNZ / Tom Kitchin

Police have released the names of three foreigners killed within a week of each other in separate crashes on Waikato's State Highway 1.

United States tourists Joshua Laroy Greenway, 35, and Amber Kory Stephens, 34, were killed in a crash in Piarere near Lake Karapiro on 15 October.

A week later on 22 October, 28-year-old Almira Pasaol, who was originally from the Philippines, died following a two-vehicle crash near Kinleith.

Police investigations into both crashes are contnuing.