Tom RoseTom Rose

Journalist·NZ Herald·

27 Sep, 2025 07:57 PMQuick Read

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One person has been left seriously injured. Photo / Bevan Conley.

A person has been airlifted to hospital seriously injured after their car veered off a rural highway and crashed down a bank.

Emergency services were called to the early morning crash north of Roxburgh on State Highway 8, situated between Waikaia Bush Rd and Eliot Rd, about 7:20am.

The single-vehicle
crash saw the driver come off the rural road at Shingle Creek before plummeting down a 25-metre bank.