A woman is in hospital after being cut free from a car that crashed at the Z Energy service station on 11th Avenue earlier today.

Emergency services were called to the petrol station on Cameron Road around 11.15am where the female passenger of a vehicle was trapped following a collision with another car.

Firefigthters attempt to free a woman trapped in the passenger side of the vehicle.

Tauranga Fire senior station officer Nigel Liddicoat says both vehicles were sitting in the forecourt of the service station when firefighters arrived.

'The woman passenger was trapped and we had to use cutting gear to remove her.”

It appears one vehicle was turning into the service station from 11th Avenue when the collision occurred.

Nigel says the impact on the passenger side of the Nissan Bluebird trapped the female passenger.

'Paramedics had a backboard out for the passenger. She was trapped because of the way the passenger door had been smashed in. She wasn't trapped by her leg or anything.”

He says the woman was conscious and talking when she was put into the back of an ambulance.

Nigel says no one else was injured in the collision.

'The driver of the Nissan Bluebird had the frame of mind to drive off the road and onto the forecourt.

'She was out of the car and walking around when we arrived.”

A police officer at the scene accompanied the woman to Tauranga Hospital.

Western Bay of Plenty road policing manager Senior Sergeant Ian Campion says police are still investigating how exactly the crash happened.