A person has died after a car crashed into a tree on Arawa St in Rotorua overnight.
A police media spokeswoman said the crash at the roundabout on Arawa and Fenton Sts was reported to police just after midnight.
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The person was the only occupant in the vehicle, she said.
An investigation into the circumstances of the crash is ongoing.