One person has died following a crash on Te Puru Creek Road, Te Puru in the Coromandel peninsula on Saturday night.

Police were called after a car left the road and crashed into the water at 8.45pm yesterday.

A second person suffered serious injuries.

Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are under way. 

This is the second death on Coromandel roads this holiday season with a motorcyclist death in a crash on December 24

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