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One person died and three others are in a critical condition after a crash near Napier last night.
Four men in their mid-20s were in a car that hit a tree on Brookfield Rd around 9.30pm.
One of the men died shortly after the crash, while the others were rushed to Hawke's Bay Hospital.
Meanwhile, a police car and a motorbike ridden by two people collided in the Upper Buller Gorge yesterday afternoon.
One rider was flown to Nelson Hospital and the other was taken to Murchison Hospital by ambulance.
