Tauranga Police are growing more and more frustrated with avoidable crashes happening on Western Bay of Plenty roads.

Yesterday, police attended several calls to crashes, with Whakamarama and Omanawa Roads proving to be double trouble.

A car rolled and hit a bank on Omanawa Road this morning. This is the second time in as many days that this has happened, with a crash at the same spot yesterday.

Acting Senior Sergeant Phil Gillbanks says police were called to a car that had slid off the road at Whakamarama yesterday morning.

'While we were in attendance another one left the road as well, on a slippery corner,” says Phil.

'There was another yesterday on Omanawa Road where a vehicle left the road, hit a bank and rolled. At the same place today, there was a second one.”

Phil says there were a few incidents yesterday because of the slippery roads following a dumping of rain.

There was a crash at an intersection in Mount Maunganui and another off Maleme Street as well.

'People need to drive to the conditions,” adds Phil. 'Remember that even when the rain stops, the road is still wet.

'You have to watch your following distances and your braking before corners - you don't want to be braking in a corner.”

Phil warns that crashes resulting from speed or any other driving offence could likely, at the very least, face a charge of careless driving and that will go through the court process.

'Which means there will be a fine decided by the courts and there can also be a disqualification,” he says.

'The biggest frustration I have is that drivers are just not paying attention to what they're doing when they're driving.”