A person has died after a car smashed into a home in Tauranga overnight.
Fire Service northern communications shift manager Jaron Phillips said a car crashed into a residential property on Otumoetai Rd around 1am.
Two people were trapped in the vehicle with firefighters needing to use the jaws of life to cut them out.
He said the "heavily trapped" died at the scene.
The injured passenger was taken to hospital in a moderate condition.
