Woman falls down cliff after crashing car

A woman who crashed her car on the Coromandel Peninsula last night stepped out of the car and fell down a cliff.

The woman was apparently unhurt in the crash near Tairua but then suffered serious injuries from the fall.

A spokesman for the Waikato-based Westpac Air Ambulance said the 35-year-old woman from Ngatea, near Thames, drove off the road at about midnight and disappeared down a cliff soon afterwards.

Rescuers were not able to reach her until about 4am.

She was flown to Waikato Hospital after being driven to Thames.

- NZPA