Emergency services were alerted to the two-vehicle crash near Hopkins Road just before 9am - Police say one person is moderately injured.

About a dozen nearby properties are without power.

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04 Jun: Three people are injured - one seriously - after a bus crash on Mossburn Five Rivers Road, between Invercargill and Queenstown

04 Jun: A North Canterbury adventure camp operator has been charged, after a nine-year-old boy was badly burned on a school trip

04 Jun: A moderate 5.1 magnitude earthquake has struck 50-kilometres north-west of Te Anau, at a depth of 23 kilometres

04 Jun: The historic ship Tui has gone up in flames in the Bay of Islands

03 Jun: A person's body has been found next to a car that caught fire in Auckland's Muriwai this morning

03 Jun: State Highway 1 has re-opened at Clarence, north of Kaikoura, after an early morning vehicle fire

02 Jun: At least 34 people have died in India's northeastern region after heavy floods caused landslides over the last four days with more heavy rain predicted

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Rugby League:
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