A 10-month-old baby is in a critical condition and her mother is one of four dead after of a road crash that one truckie described as "the worst thing they've seen in 20 years".
The crash in Taupo reportedly involved members of a Tongan church group, returning home to Palmerston North after a weekend event in Auckland.
Pesi Tuivai, 40, has been named as one of the four victims - she was one of eight people in the people-mover van that collided with a five-seat van. Her baby daughter, only 10 months old, is in a critical condition.
