Car crash

An out-of-control car reversed at high speed through the door of a Dunedin art gallery last night.

A 66-year-old woman is in a critical condition and an 82-year-old woman has serious injuries after a hatchback car and heavy truck collided on a notorious accident blackspot near Henley yesterday.

A 69-year-old Australian woman sustained minor leg injuries when the car in which she was a passenger crashed in the Catlins yesterday afternoon.

A 56-year-old Dunedin man is to appear in court, charged in relation to what police described as an extremely high breath-alcohol level.

A 78-year-old woman underwent surgery for serious leg and chest injuries after she was hit by a passenger van on the corner of George and Howe Sts, Dunedin, yesterday.

A 3-year-old boy in the back seat of a stolen car swore at the driver as he sped through Dunedin last night.

Two truck drivers escaped serious injury when their trucks crashed just north of Milton yesterday afternoon. Constable Robin Hutton, of Milton, said emergency services were called to the collision on State Highway 1 just north of Milton about 4.30pm.

An Australian woman remained in a serious but stable condition in Dunedin Hospital's intensive care unit last night, after a head-on collision between two vehicles on a one-lane bridge near Tarras on Thursday.

An international student blinded by the early-morning sun drove his car off a Dunedin road yesterday.

Queenstown police are investigating the cause of a crash on State Highway 6, near Arrowtown, yesterday, which sent a courier to Lakes District Hospital with leg injuries.

A woman and a child were taken to Dunedin Hospital with minor injuries after a crash in Stuart St last night.

A second person has died following a two-car smash at Cromwell last night.

A Dunedin man and his son were involved in a fatal head-on crash that killed two people, including the father, near Haast on Wednesday.

A car was involved in a high-speed pursuit of about 15 minutes in Dunedin, last night.