A 31-year-old man has life-threatening injuries after his car left the road on an Auckland motorway onramp and crashed onto the shoreline.
The injured man is in Auckland City Hospital's intensive care unit, where his condition this afternoon was reported as critical but stable.
Police were investigating at the crash scene, on Curran Street in Herne Bay.
It's believed the man's car left the road, rolled down an embankment before coming to rest on the shoreline just before 3am this morning.