A person has died after their car crashed down a bank on the Gibbston Valley Highway near Queenstown.
About 25 emergency service personnel were called to the crash site at 10.30am today after the car collided with a van.
It left State Highway 6 and rolled down a bank before coming to rest on its roof above a roaring Kawarau River in the Nevis Bluff area.
Police confirmed this afternoon that the driver died at the scene. No one else was in the vehicle.