Emergency services were called just before midday and police say indications are one person is critically injured.

Diversions are in place, and motorists should expect delays.

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08 Dec: Parts of the South Island telecommunications network are still down following severe weather

08 Dec: A man who pushed a toddler in a pram to safety, before being hit by a car, remains critically injured in Hawke's Bay Hospital

08 Dec: One person has died following a crash on Wainui Road, near Whakatane

08 Dec: Mobile outages, flooding and road closures - the impacts of the weekend's heavy rain is being felt by many throughout the South Island

08 Dec: Police searching for missing woman Barbara Ann Quinn have launched a homicide investigation, after finding a body

07 Dec: Police are on the hunt for a man who seriously assaulted a woman in Wellington yesterday

07 Dec: Two men have been rescued from the Korowai Torlesse Tussocklands Park in Canterbury

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