There are no reported injuries following a vehicle and train crash in Tauranga.

Police say they received a report of a vehicle hit by a train on Matapihi Road, Matapihi at 11.04am.

"It looks like the vehicle was abandoned," says a police spokesperson.

Following being hit by the train, the black vehicle is partly on its side between the rail tracks and high grass bank that runs alongside the railway line.

A Matapihi local at the scene says the car was empty at the time of the crash, and they have no idea how it came to be there.

"As far as we know no-one was in it at the time the train connected with it,' says a local.

"It doesn't have any numberplates on it."

The car lying alongside the train at Matapihi. Photo: Supplied.

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