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Emergency services are attending a scene in New Plymouth's Merrilands where a vehicle has crashed into a house on Riversdale Drive

24 December 2024

They say there are reports of injuries and the road is blocked while emergency services respond.

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Other Upper North Island News

28 Dec: Gisborne-bound motorists are being urged to drive safe, and plan ahead, as traffic's expected to worsen, over the holiday break

27 Dec: A body's been found in the search for a jet skiier, who went missing from the Waikato Bar, on Christmas Day

26 Dec: A search continues for a person who went missing after a jet ski incident near Port Waikato on Christmas

25 Dec: A person's been airlifted to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, after a quad bike rolled over around 2.30pm at Northland's Pouto Point

25 Dec: A Coromandel holidaymaker is still in shock after a shark attacked his kayak 'completely out of the blue.'

25 Dec: A light aircraft has crashed into an unoccupied house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: The Civil Aviation Authority's investigating after a light aircraft crashed into a house on the Coromandel Peninsula

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