A person has been seriously injured after the car they were travelling in crashed into a power pole north of Tauranga today.
The person has been taken to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition after the crash on State Highway 2 at the Te Puna Rd roundabout this morning, a police communications spokeswoman said.
The force of the crash, which happened just after 9am, toppled the power pole and cut power to hundreds of homes.
"It was a single-vehicle crash but other vehicles stopped to help," the spokeswoman said.