A major Auckland road is closed and multiple people are reported injured after a serious crash this morning. Photo / Greg Bowker
A major Auckland road is closed and multiple people are reported injured after a serious crash this morning. Photo / Greg Bowker
One of two cars involved in a serious crash in Auckland - leaving a child and two others seriously hurt - is understood to have been "pink-stickered" and should not have been on the road, a witness says.
Three people were injured - two seriously and one moderately - after the two-car crash on Ti Rakau Dr in Pakuranga about 9.25am on Sunday.
One of the cars, a Honda Civic, was left severed in two and the key Auckland road was closed as the Serious Crash Unit began investigating.
A crash witness said he believed the child involved was aged under 10 and had received significant, life-threatening injuries.
The child is believed to have been a passenger in a BMW and had to be cut from the vehicle.
The driver of the second vehicle, the Honda Civic, is believed to have been thrown from the vehicle.
The witness said he understood one of the vehicles - believed to be the Honda Civic - was "pink-stickered" some days before the crash.
A pink sticker, which directs that the vehicle is not to be driven on a road, may be issued to the driver or owner of a vehicle by an enforcement officer who believes on reasonable grounds that a vehicle is not in a safe condition to be driven on a road.
Traffic control and diversions are in place and motorists are asked to avoid the area. Photo / Supplied
A pink sticker remains in force until the vehicle has been inspected and a new WoF or CoF has been issued.
"It appears one vehicle has crossed the lanes and turned into a side road. It was hit side on, on the passenger side, and ripped in half," he said.
The witness believed speed was a significant factor.
Police would not confirm whether either of the vehicles involved was pink stickered.
A police spokeswoman said they had been called to the two-car crash on Ti Rakau Dr, near the intersection of Edgewater Dr.
A St John spokesperson said three ambulances had attended the incident and treated three patients. All three had been transported to Middlemore Hospital.
Two patients are in a serious condition, while the third is in a moderate condition.
Ti Rakau Dr was closed in both directions. Traffic control and diversions are in place and motorists are asked to avoid the area.
Another witness at the scene said police had begun scene examinations.
"It was obviously quite a serious crash between a late model BMW and what appears to be a small two-door [Honda] hatchback that looks to have spilt in half on impact," he said.
