Wednesday, 23 March 2016 - 11:35am |
Auckland City

Newmarket car park accident

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Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding a car falling from a car parking building in Newmarket last night.

The victims of the incident remain in Auckland Hospital. A 30-year-old woman is in a criical condition with severe head injuries and a 39-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition.

Police say that the car appears to have fallen from the car parking building onto York Road in Newmarket at around 8.40pm whilst the two occupants were still inside. The car fell on its roof onto the top of another car which was parked in the street, no one was in that parked car at the time.  

The Police Serious Crash Unit is continuing its examination of the scene and no further information is available at this stage.

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Issued by Tracie Simpson/Auckland City District