One person has died and two have been injured after a crash in central Auckland this afternoon.
A 17-year-old passenger was the young man killed in a crash in Auckland.
Police told the Herald the teenager had been riding in the front seat when the car lost control and smashed into a tree on Ian McKinnon Drive in Eden Terrace.
No other details would be revealed untilMonday, a police spokesman said.
An eyewitness claims the car was going "screaming" fast in the moments before the accident.
The two injured were taken by ambulance to Auckland City Hospital with moderate injuries.
The person who died at the scene is yet to be named.
Golf Warehouse employee Chase Hamlet said staff heard the crash from their store on nearby Newton Rd.
"There were a couple of claps, like 'boom', 'boom', 'boom', it sounded really serious," he said. "We went down to have a look and the car had severed a tree right in half."
Mr Hamlet said the car, an older Holden, was badly damaged, particularly on the passenger side. It had been heading up the hill towards Upper Queen St, but had crossed the centre line to hit the tree, he said.
