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Man dies in Christchurch crash
NZ Newswire
May 9, 2012, 4:15 pm
A man in his 60s has died after his car crashed into a ditch in the Christchurch suburb of Bexley, police say.
The man's car veered off Bexley Rd in east Christchurch before landing in a ditch just after midday on Wednesday.
No other vehicles were involved.
A police spokesman says the man may have died from a medical condition but this will be determined once a post-mortem examination has been carried out.The world in pictures
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