Woman found dead in overturned car near Taupo

Police said a woman has been found dead in a partly submerged car, north of Taupo. Photo / File

A woman has been found dead in a car which ended upside down in a stream north of Lake Taupo.

The alarm was raised on Monday afternoon when the passenger - another woman - crawled free from the wreckage after the car crashed on Tahae Road near Mangakino, police said.

Emergency services later removed the car from the shallow stream it had rolled into with its female driver inside.

Investigators are working to determine the cause of the crash.