One dead after car crashes down bank in Coromandel

Emergency services were called to the Otautu Bay Farm Camp on Port Jackson Rd at 11.17pm.

One man has died after a car plummeted 10m down a bank and crashed onto rocks in Coromandel last night.

Senior Sergeant Matt Cranshaw of Waikato Police said emergency services were called to the Otautu Bay Farm Camp on Port Jackson Rd at 11.17pm.

A child was in critical condition and two two passengers were seriously injured.

As of 12.30 fire, ambulance and police personnel were at the scene, and two rescue helicopters were on their way.

The Serious Crash Unit is investigating.

The death brings the 2018 toll to 380 - the worst in nearly a decade.