A Canadian tourist suffered serious facial injuries when a fence post smashed through the windscreen of his car in a crash on Hamilton's southern outskirts last night.
Emergency services were called to the scene at a farm about 11.50pm, Senior Constable Graham Fitzpatrick said.
"The crash appears to have involved a single northbound Ford Telstar station-wagon coming down a hill failing to negotiate a sign-posted 85km/h bend and leaving the road and crashing through a fence," Mr Fitzpatrick said.
"Unfortunately for the 26-year-old Canadian male driving the car, when his vehicle crashed through the fence a post smashed through the windscreen causing him serious facial injuries."
Mr Fitzpatrick said the man was taken to Waikato Hospital in a status one condition.
