One car fell down a bank, while another crashed into a house. (Photo / Supplied)

Four crashes in one hour in Bay of Plenty area

Author: Bay of Plenty Times,
Publish Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017, 4:51PM

Four crashes were reported to police in Tauranga and the Western Bay this afternoon.

At 2pm, police were notified that a car had crashed into a house on Dunlop Rd in Te Puke.

A reporter at the scene said the car was "literally fully inside the house".

He said it appeared the car had crashed through a boundary fence and gone straight into the home.

Bystanders told the reporter that the car had "screamed around the corner" before it crashed.

A car crashed through a fence and into a house in Te Puke. Photo/Stuart Whitaker

A media spokeswoman said an ambulance had been called, but she had no information about any injuries at this time.

Also near Te Puke, a car hit a side rail on Te Matai Rd between Mark Rd and Waimea Dr. No one was injured in this crash and the road was not blocked.

In Tauranga, a green Mitsubishi Mirage landed upside down on State Highway 29a between the Barkes Corner roundabout and the Oropi roundabout.

The police spokeswoman said there were no reports of injuries in this crash. The car's airbags had activated.

The owner of the car, who was not in it at the time of the crash, said there were three people in the vehicle when it crashed through a fence on Cheyne Rd, landing upside down in a private paddock next to John's Produce Centre on Oropi Rd.

The owner of the car said his daughter and two others he did not know were in the car at the time it crashed down the bank. He said his daughter seemed to be fine and one person had possible "spinal injuries".

John's Produce Centre staff member Wayne Hill said he and another staff member were getting some boxes when they heard two bangs. He went outside and saw the car upside down and people outside of it.

"We heard this impact and then another when it hit the ground," Hill said.

"We went running inside to ring the ambulance."

About 2.10pm, there was a nose-to-tail crash at the intersection of 22nd Avenue and Cameron Rd.

The road was not blocked, and there were no details of any injuries.

Earlier today, there was a crash on State Highway 2 at Apata.

Police were called at 12.35pm after a truck went off the road.

"The driver is fine," the spokeswoman said. "It looks like he was arranging with the company to get the truck back on the road."