A Mount Maunganui woman is "lucky to be alive" after a train struck her.
Emergency services were called to the train tracks at the end of Macdonald St in Mount Maunganui about 4pm yesterday.
Mount Maunganui St John shift manager Gary Bishell said a 24-year-old woman was taken to Tauranga Hospital with head injuries after being clipped by a train as she was crossing the tracks.
She was in a stable condition last night, he told the Bay of Plenty Times Weekend.
Staff at a nearby business raced out to help when they heard the woman screaming.