Yesterday was a day of mayhem on Western Bay roads with at least six crashes of varying severity across the region.
The first crash was a minor one about 7.20am on Welcome Bay Rd between a car and a bus, just past the Welcome Bay shops.
This was followed soon after by a fatal two-truck crash on State Highway 2 in Pongakawa and, at almost the same time, a car and truck crashed outside Bayfair with no injuries.
Later in the afternoon, three crashes in different parts of the city happened between 3pm and 4pm.
In Judea, a car collided with three other cars and glanced off a building, damaging a gas fixture, in Birch Ave. On the Te Puke Highway near Bell Rd, a light truck, van and car crashed and a woman was taken to hospital in a serious condition.