Kamakaze drive
Taihape coroner Mr Donald Flack described the actions of the two youths who died when their vehicle crashed into a road block at Waiouru in July as "a death drive with kamakaze overtones". The coroner ruled that the driver, Samuel George Pinker, aged 15, died as a result of massive haemorrhaging from lacerations of the heart, injuries resulting from the high speed crash. One of his passengers, Mattie M a t e k i n o Moses,14, died of cerebral disruption resulting from skull fractures. With time and distance in which to stop and with an escape route open to him Pinker deliberately drove into a fire engine in the road block at a speed estimated at between 150 and 200km/h.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 26, 24 November 1987, Page 3
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123Kamakaze drive Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 26, 24 November 1987, Page 3
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