A woman has died and a man is critically injured following a crash in Whanganui this morning.
The 33-year-old woman was a passenger in the car, which lost control and smashed into a tree on Papaiti Rd, around 6km north-east of Whanganui, shortly before 1am, police said.
She died on impact, Senior Sergeant Marc Clausen, of the police central communications centre, said.
The 22-year-old man was the driver of the vehicle. He was taken to Wanganui Hospital in a critical condition, and has since been transferred to Wellington Hospital.
They were the only occupants in the car.
