Person dies after car goes down bank near Ettrick

Emergency services at the crash site yesterday. Photo: Julie Asher

One person has died following a crash near Ettrick in Central Otago. 

Police were notified of the single vehicle crash in Moa Flat Rd about 11.20am yesterday. 

A car had come off the road and gone down a bank.

“Sadly, one person was found deceased at the scene,” police said in a statement this morning. 

Fire crews from Roxburgh and Millers Flat brigades attended, as did Hato Hone St John which sent a rapid response unit, one operations manager and one PRIME responder.

Police said the Serious Crash Unit were advised and inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were continuing.

– Allied Media