Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
Six people were taken to hospital after a crash on State Highway 2 in the Bay of Plenty last night.
Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash in Waiotahe, a rural community in the Ōpōtiki District, at about 8.10pm.
St John said six people were taken to Tauranga and Whakatane Hospitals by ambulance - one with critical injuries, one with serious and four with moderate injuries.
The road reopened overnight.
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