Christopher Currie (1985 – 19 August, 2005) was a New Zealander, who while driving a car along the Southern Motorway in Auckland, was struck by an 8 kg block of concrete was dropped from the Princess Street overbridge in Otahuhu. The block went through the windscreen of his car, glancing his chin causing a broken and then striking Currie in the chest. This fractured his sternum, which severed his heart's main artery and instantly killed him. The car then travelled another 120 metres down the motorway before striking a pole, causing minor injuries to the other three occupants of the car.

A 14-year-old Manukau youth was arrested and charged with murder and endangering transport and appeared in the Manakau Youth Court on 23 August.

The murder trial began on 3 July 2006 in the Auckland High Court. The accussed teenager has name suppression and is identified only as "R". This name suppression will be revisited after the verdict. "R" plead not guilty to the murder charge but admitted Currie's manslaughter. Crown Prosecutor Aaron Perkins told the jury that "R" did not need to have intended to kill Currie to commit murder. Under the Crimes Act 1961, death resulting from an unlawful act — in this case either an intention to cause him harm or to cause mayhem on the motorway — constitutes murder.<ref> </ref>

Among the prosecution witnesses were Currie's girlfriend who testified that all of a sudden the windscreen shattered and Currie looked like he had been knocked out.<ref> </ref> Friends of the accussed said that on the Monday following the incident, he told them what he had done. One of the friends said that "R" sounded proud of what he had done.<ref> </ref>

Currie played for the King Country under 20 age-group Rugby Union team and was a builders apprentice in Taupo.

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