Click the image above to view slideshowUpdate: 2.14PM A fully submerged car found in a Tauranga stream has been found unoccupied after police had it hauled from the water this afternoon.
Initially there were fears a person may have been inside the grey hatchback when it was first discovered near Faulkner St.
Police help to pull the grey hatchback out of the stream. Photos by: Daniel Hines.
Police say the car had been driving on the walking track and lost control and landed in the Kopurererua Stream.
Concerns were raised earlier today that the car's occupants may have still been trapped since a Tauranga Girls' College t-shirt was found nearby.
The car found submerged in Kopurererua Stream.
The car is being removed from the stream.
Meanwhile, one person has been taken to hospital after a car carrying four people was found in a ditch off Athenree Gorge this morning.
Emergency services were called to the scene in the middle of Athenree Gorge at 11.45am.
St John district operations manager Jeremy Gooders says one person has been taken to Tauranga Hospital with minor to moderate injuries after the car went into a ditch.
'The others were uninjured.”
One ambulance from Waihi attended. There are no diversions in place.
Keep checking SunLive for updates.
1 comment
Badly behaved vehicles!
Posted on 14-04-2014 12:06 | By nerak
‘the car had been driving on the walking track'! Goodness me, didn't it know better? Maybe it's time for all car's to sit a driving licence test? Bit like it's mate, elsewhere over the weekend, ‘two teenagers are injured after the van they were in crashed in to a power pole in Lower Hutt this morning.' Oh dear, poor teenagers, so one of them wasn't driving the van? Really, it is time the appalling behaviour of vehicles on our roads was addressed!
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