Results for road death

Titali To’ia got more jail time when he was sentenced to six-years imprisonment for reckless driving causing the death of Netane Nimo at Veitongo in 2022. The judge said the defendant's offending was serious and “demonstrates a disregard for the law and for the safety of other users of the road.”

A 32-year-man died early this morning, 11 November, when his car swerved and collided with a tree on Taufa'ahu Road in front of Hu’atolitoli Prison, at Vaini. The road death toll now stands at 11 this year for Tonga.

A 20-year-old woman died on the morning of 1 September, after crashing her Toyota Rav-4 on ‘Alaivahamama’o By-Pass Road at Halaleva, in Nuku'alofa.

Titali To’ia (37) is the man charged in the death of Netane Nimo (26) from a road accident on Taufa‘ahau Road, Veitongo on Saturday night, 18 June.

A 26-year-old man died on Saturday night, 18 June from a road accident on Taufa‘ahau Road at Veitongo. This is the fourth road death in Tonga this year.

A 53-year-old man died when the car he was driving crashed into a coconut tree on a road travelling from Kahoua to Sia’atoutai on Sunday evening, February 27. A passenger was injured, in the accident which recorded Tonga's first road death for the year.

Sione Uikilifi Lapu’aho (20) from Vaini was the passenger who died early Sunday morning July 4, after a road crash at Malapo near Hu'atolitoli Prison.

Simione Ikahihifo (55) was sentenced to seven-years and six-months imprisonment for dangerous driving causing the death of 'Aisea Kaifa (66) on Hihifo Road at Sia'atoutai in August 2020. The judge said that In 2015 Tonga increased its maximum sentence to 15 years imprisonment for drunk driving causing death, as a deterrent, so that lives might be saved.

A two-years and five-months old child died on Thursday evening, January 14 after being hit by a vehicle in Popua.