Driver survives crash down 20-metre high bank in Pyes Pa, Tauranga, with no serious injuries

A driver has narrowly escaped serious injury after the car they were in crashed down 20-metre bank in Tauranga today .

Shortly before 7.30am emergency services were called to the crash on Pyes Pa Rd, about 300m north of the crematorium.

The car was on its roof at the bottom of the bank and the driver was out.

The car at the bottom of the bank. Photo/John Borren

A police spokeswoman said the driver was assessed by paramedics as having only minor injuries but was transported to Tauranga Hospital for further assessment.

A photographer at the scene said the bank was extremely steep and the car would have plummeted about 20 metres.

The car plummeted down a steep bank off Pyes Pa Rd. Photo/John Borren

Nearby resident Angela van der Velden said it was not the first time a car had gone over the bank, or come very close to going over.

"We have seen several cars go off or nearly go off," she said.

"We go out and we see them sitting on the side and think 'that looked like a close call'."

She said drivers should take great caution on the road, especially when it was slippery.

Matthew Gill, a resident of The Lakes, said a subdivision was being built below the corner.

"I hope for the new Lakes residents building below that this corner gets a safety upgrade. The speed limit is also too high."

It was not the first crash he had known to have happened in the area, having come across a car on the edge of the bank against a damaged barrier on on July 23.

A photo from July 23 of a car on the edge of the same bank. Photo supplied/Matthew Gill

Series of crashes across city

The Pyes Pa crash was one of multiple car crashes that kept emergency services busy on Thursday.

A car crashed through a fence on Summerland Crescent resident's back fence in Pāpāmoa about 11.27am.

A police spokeswoman said the driver suffered only minor injuries and was treated at the scene.

There was little damage to the car but the fence and a washing line were damaged.

Properties on Summerland Crescent back on to Opal Drive, Doncaster Drive and Carrington Drive.

A car involved in the Waihi Rd crash. Photo/John Borren

An hour later two cars collided at 12.20 at the intersection of Waihi Rd and the Waihi Rd on-ramp.

The crash temporarily blocked the on-ramp and traffic heading from Judea towards Cameron Rd had to be diverted.

Traffic heading down Waihi Rd from Cameron Rd was not affected.

A police spokesman said no injuries were reported.

There was also a minor crash on Fourteenth Ave.