A young woman has been seriously hurt and trapped for more than an hour in her car after it crashed this morning.
The woman had been travelling along Whithy Rd near Matata when the car rolled about 6am.
Northern fire communications shift manager Jaron Phillips said firefighters were called to the scene but unable to free the woman until after 7am.
She had been seriously hurt in the collision, which involved the car rolling and landing on its side.
Firefighters were forced to remove the roof to gain access to the driver, he said.
