A one-year-old baby is being transferred to Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital after a car crashed into a tree this morning.

A baby is being taken to Starship Hospital after a car hit a tree this morning. Photo: supplied.

The baby was in the car which crashed into a tree outside ABC Tauranga Central Childcare just after 11.30am.

St John district operations manager Jeremy Gooders says three people were taken to Tauranga Hospital with moderate injuries.

Bay of Plenty District Health Board communications manager Diana Marriott confirms a Tauranga couple, a 20-year-old woman and her 18-year-old partner – and a one-year-old baby – were taken to Tauranga Hospital this morning.

'The baby is about to be transferred to Starship Hospital,” says Diana.