UPDATED 9.14am: A car appearing to sink in a bed of blackberry was the subject of an urgent response from emergency services this morning.
Initial reports to 111 about 8.20am suggested a woman was trapped inside a sinking car off the side of the State Highway 2, near Maketu Rd.
However, when emergency services arrived there was no body of water or anyone trapped.
A reporter at the scene said the car appeared to have crashed into a ditch at the side of the road, into a large amount of blackberry.
Two young women were being spoken to by police but no one was seriously hurt.
8.34am: Emergency services are still responding to a report of a person involved in a car, sinking in a body of water south of Te Puke.
Police, ambulance and fire fighters are headed to State Highway 2 near Maketu Rd, where it is understood a car has crashed.
Initial reports were that a person was trapped inside as the vehicle was sinking. However, a fire service spokesman said the person was understood to be out now and there was no apparent body of water in which the car was reported to be sinking in.
8.28am: Emergency services are responding to reports of a person trapped in a car, sinking in a body of water at Te Puke.
More soon.