Charges have been laid over the death of Sean Dickey in a vehicle accident in April this year. 

The 22-year-old former Mount Aspiring College (MAC) student and off-duty St John officer was riding his motorcycle in Halswell, Christchurch, when he was involved in a collision with another motorcycle and a car.

A 60-year-old woman has now been charged with operating a vehicle carelessly causing death, the NZ Herald reports.

The other motorcycle rider - also an off-duty St John officer - was injured in the collision and the woman received a second charge of operating a vehicle carelessly causing injury. 

She appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday (August 17) and has been remanded to appear again on August 30.

Sean’s parents Steve and Mei Lian Dickey live in Wānaka and during Sean’s childhood in Wānaka he was active in volunteer work, in particular with St John; he was a sailing instructor; and part of the MAC kapa haka group.

He became a Wānaka St John cadet at six years old and had become a full-time emergency medical technician at 21, a position described as his dream job.

Following his death Canterbury St John Ambulance district operations manager Curt Ward told the Wānaka App the devastating loss had been widely felt across the St John whānau.

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