Police have charged a 27-year-old man for the death of Keleiola Pifeleti, a 19-year-old Tongan teenage girl who died in a car accident on Trafalgar St in Onehunga in 2015.
Paul Onelani Pifeleti has been charged on Tuesday with being in charge of a vehicle while above the alcohol legal limit and causing the death of Keliola on August 20, 2015.
His blood alcohol reading was 137mg, court document says.
The legal limit at the time of the crash was 80mg, but has since been reduced to 50mg.
Pifeleti entered no plea and is due to reappear in Auckland District Court later this month.
Reporting on the Waikato University student’s death in August 2015 Kaniva News said “Police have no record of an accident and a spokeswoman from the Wellington Police call centre said the accident may not have been reported to Police”.
Police believed that at the time Keleiola was the only passenger in the vehicle, which was being driven by a relative.
The driver received minor injuries at the time after the car hit several parked cars.
Her death was reported to a coroner.
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