Police have been called to a Dunedin car crash involving an overloaded car with one person in the boot, just days after a fatal crash killed five teenagers in Timaru.
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Emergency services were called to the two-car crash on Hillside Road at 7pm yesterday evening, Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said.
He said the driver, a young woman, was on her restricted license and had six passengers in a car that only seated four.
She crashed into another car at an intersection.
One person, who was riding in the boot the overloaded car, was taken to hospital with moderate to minor injuries.
It comes just days after five teenage boys were killed when an overloaded car smashed into a power pole with such force the car was split in two.
Police have named the group, all aged between 15 and 16, as Javarney Drummond, Andrew Goodger, Niko Hill, Joseff McCarthy, and Jack Wallace.
They were travelling in an overloaded car on the northern edge of Timaru when it crashed into a power pole on Saturday night - splitting in half and hurling debris down the road.
The driver, a 19-year-old, was the sole survivor. He remained in a serious but stable condition at Timaru Hospital and had not yet been spoken to by police.