Police were called to the intersection of 3rd Ave and Cameron Rd after a single-vehicle crash this morning.<\/p>\n
The crash happened about 10.45am.<\/p>\n
One person has received serious injuries, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The road may be blocked while emergency services are in attendance.<\/p>\n
Constable Mike Lewis said an elderly male reversed into a car park, then continued into the building.<\/p>\n
The man suffered moderate to serious head injuries.<\/p>\n
A parked vehicle was also damaged and was removed from the scene.<\/p>\n
A man who works on 3rd Ave said people heard a \u201cbig bang\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the driver put his foot on the accelerator instead of the brake.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the car went backwards into the building.<\/p>\n
The worker had heard the driver suffered a medical event while in the vehicle.<\/p>\n
He had been told the man was \u201cthrown out of the vehicle\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was blood everywhere.\u201c<\/p>\n
A reporter at the scene said internal walls looked unscathed and the building was not being evacuated.<\/p>\n
Some people who were working in the building didn\u2019t feel the crash, however, other workers on higher floors did, with one saying it felt like a \u201cbomb had gone off\u201d.<\/p>\n
A photographer at the scene said people in the upper floors of the building felt the car hit.<\/p>\n
Two police units responded at 10.45am.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency New Zealand northern fire communications shift manager Josh Pennefather said fire crews arrived at the scene at 10.48am and assisted one person.<\/p>\n
Pennefather said the person was not trapped, but they required assistance to exit the vehicle.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from Hato Hone St John said one ambulance responded.<\/p>\n
He said one patient was assessed at the scene and transported to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to the intersection of 3rd Ave and Cameron Rd after a single-vehicle crash this morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-538911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}