A young woman was taken to Dunedin Hospital with suspected back and neck injuries after she lost control of the car she was driving on a bridge on Coast Rd, near Warrington, about 9.30am.
The car spun on the bridge and went backwards over the edge, landing with the back of the car on the bank of a creek below and the front resting on the bridge.
The woman was trapped inside the car for about 30 minutes while firefighters stabilised it by tying ropes between the car and a fire appliance and the car and a tree.
She was the sole occupant of the car.
Four people escaped injury in a single car crash about 1.15pm on SH1 between Pine Hill and Pigeon Flat, north of Dunedin.
The driver of a Honda sedan lost control of the vehicle on a bend, spun around, and hit a wire rope crash barrier on the left of the north-bound lane.
The car was significantly damaged in the crash.
Senior Sergeant Kelvin Lloyd, of Dunedin, said when rain fell after a long dry period, roads should be treated with care, even if drivers were familiar with them.
