Woman killed in collision with motorway pillar named

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    Police have named the woman who died in a car accident yesterday morning after colliding with a concrete pillar north of Christchurch.

    She was Stephanie Louise Ring, 24, from New South Wales in Australia.

    Ms Ring died after her car hit the Ohaka overbridge on State Highway 1
    at Kaiapoi about 8.15am yesterday.

    Sergeant Graeme Crosson, of Kaiapoi police, said Ms Ring had been living and working in New Zealand for some months before the accident.

    - NZPA