Two people are fighting for their lives after separate overnight crashes.
Shortly before 12.30am, St John arrived at a Taupō crash where a car had collided with a power pole.
The ambulance took one person to hospital in a critical condition.
A helicopter was dispatched for an earlier crash at Tirohanga in the Eastern Bay of Plenty just before 10pm.
A car had gone off the road into a paddock and one critically injured person was taken to Waikato hospital.