The occupants of a vehicle which hit a cow on a Tauranga highway early this morning escaped injury. A police media spokesman said a report came in at 2.30am that a cow had been hit by a vehicle on State Highway 29A.
The collision happened near the Maungatapu Rd onramp.
The cow died but no one in the vehicle was injured.
Meanwhile, there were also two car crashes in Pāpāmoa overnight.