A traffic controller has been injured on a Coromandel highway after a driver tried to evade a road closure.

Across the Coromandel Peninsula, a series of road closures and warnings were in place to address storm damage in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle.

The incident took place on SH25 between Whitianga and Kūaotunu at lunchtime on February 17.

Emergency services, including police, responded to the 'crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian” and said a person was taken to hospital with moderate injuries.

Enquiries were ongoing, and no-one had been charged as of Sunday.

According to a spokesperson for Coromandel CFM, the driver of the vehicle was 'a fellah in his late 60s” who was driving back to Kūaotunu from Whitianga on Friday.

Coromandel CFM spokesperson John Grant says he has been informed about the incident and says once the driver reached the road closure he became concerned about how he was going to get home.

'He came over [to Whitianga] on Friday ... on the way back he got to the top of the Kūaotunu hill and the road was blocked by workers.”

The driver, he says, became upset while communicating with traffic staff.

When the driver spotted a gap in the roadworks, he opted to evade the road closure and drive through.

'What I understand is one of the work vehicles came through and as they removed a cone, [the driver] started to go through it.”

The information he was given was that one of the traffic control staff 'tried to put their hands through the window and turn the wheel of the car so that it went into a bank”.

In the process, while the car was still moving, 'the [traffic controller] had to let go and fell over and hurt himself”.

Emergency services were called to the scene and police escorted the driver home.

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency confirms that 'an incident occurred on SH25 near Kūaotunu”.