A woman was taken from the scene on a stretcher when a four door red sedan was driven off Somme Pde down a bank this afternoon.
The vehicle came to a halt in a vertical position up against the Aramoho-Wanganui Rowing Club between Gibson and George streets at 2.30pm.
Judith Kenny was getting a new tyre at Cooper Tyres when she heard a crash and then saw smoke billowing from the scene.
"I ran over to see what I could do to help and there was a car over the bank. It was in a vertical position," Kenny said.
"I didn't see people at first, but then I saw two. One seemed not that great, she was just sitting there."