A dog that jumped through a car window and mauled a driver has been euthanized. The attack is just one of a number of serious dog attacks on the Coromandel Peninsula.
The car driver was flown to hospital with serious injuries to his upper body after the January 30 attack in Tairua, on the peninsula's east coast.
The dog was also injured in the attack, and was put down by Thames Coromandel District Council staff.
Operations manager for community environment Barry Smedts said there had been a spate of serious dog attacks across the peninsula between the end of January and the beginning of February, most on private property, and all involving "local" dogs.
During the same period, roaming dogs killed a small dog in Kennedy Bay in the north-east of the peninsula, and further south, in Whangamata, two pig dogs attacked a man on a commercial site.