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By RNZ
Emergency services are at the scene of a crash that has left a car upside down in a stream in rural Wellington.
Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand and the Wellington Free Ambulance were called to the crash in Mākara just after 8am.
Fire and Emergency shift managerAlex Norris said crews arrived to find a car partially submerged in the stream on Mākara Beach Rd – a narrow, winding road between Karori and Mākara Beach.
He said one truck was still at the scene but police were handling the response.
They said they saw at least four police vehicles, two ambulances and a fire engine attending the crash, as well as a white blanket laid on the ground.
“Usually you hear stuff at night but we didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary. Our neighbour told me it’s quite a common place where people go off, there’s about a two- to three-metre drop from the road down to the stream.
“I’ve witnessed cars having a head-on collision on the stretch before and a bunch of near misses. I haven’t really had a chance to let it sink in. I’ve talked to some of the locals this morning and they’re really shocked,” he said.
Police have closed the road a couple of hundred metres south of the crash site. An officer at the scene said the road was likely to remain closed until at least 11.30am.
At the southern end of the police cordon, an officer is turning back all traffic including rubbish collection, a tour bus and numerous cyclists looking to head up the narrow winding road through the green, semi-rural valley.
