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A woman has died after driving down the wrong way on Auckland's North-Western Motorway into head-on traffic in the early hours of this morning.
Sergeant Tobias Harrison said the woman drove on to the off-ramp at Nelson Street in Auckland and drove 10km to the Te Atatu on-ramp. She hit two cars and was killed instantly at 1.30am.
Mr Harrison said the other two drivers were not seriously injured.
Sergeant Stu Kearns, head of the Waitemata serious crash unit, said there were a lot of 111 calls made to police about a car driving on the wrong side of the road.
"The traffic control room at the Harbour Bridge [station] were looking through the cameras to try and figure out and by the times the report came in, the crash had occurred," Mr Kearns said.
Mr Kearns said the accident scene stretched for 200 metres down the motorway.
"Until we get the pathologist's report we wont know. We suspect alcohol was a factor," Mr Kearns said.
The motorway was closed for about four and-a-half hours this morning while the serious crash unit investigated the scene.
Earlier there had been confusion over where the woman drove on to the motorway.
But a spokeswoman for the Auckland police communications, Darragh O'Riordan, said the first call was from a person who saw the woman getting on to the motorway at Nelson St.
She said the centre received three 111 calls.
- NZHERALD STAFF
