A car passenger has died after a driver fled police and crashed.
At 10.07pm, a suspicious vehicle stopped on Clevedon Rd, Papakura. When police stopped to make inquiries with the driver, the vehicle accelerated away.
No pursuit was initiated.
Several minutes later the vehicle was located by another police unit after it had crashed into a pole at the intersection of Porchester Rd and Walters Rd, Takanini.