Police have charged a 28-year-old man after two people died in a car crash in Makarora in the Queenstown-Lakes District on 30 January.
The man is due to appear in Alexandra District Court on 5 February on charges of careless driving causing death and careless driving causing injury.
Police have not yet released the names of the two people who died after the single car crash on Makarora-Lake Hawea Rd.