Police search for crash driver

Tauranga Police are today looking for the driver of a car that went over a bank at Matapihi last night.

Emergency services were called to the Matapihi Road crash at 8.30pm, but found the vehicle empty when they arrived.


A car was found crashed on a bank on Matapihi Road on Sunday night, but the driver was nowhere to be seen when police arrived. Photo: File.

It was the 11th crash over the weekend from 5pm Friday, says Western Bay of Plenty road policing manager traffic Senior Sergeant Ian Campion.

'It was a shocking weekend for crashes,” says Ian.

Some eight of those 11 crashes over the weekend were on Sunday, in what were ideal driving conditions of dry roads, sunshine and no wind.

'There were no major injuries, but three of them were on the state highway network, where there is always potential for serious injury,” adds Ian.

'The rest were urban and rural, but our staff were certainly kept busy attending crashes.”

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