Waikato Police are currently investigating incidents leading up to a crash on the outskirts of Taupiri overnight that left a young driver seriously injured.
District Road Policing Manager, Inspector Leo Tooman, said the crash happened about 6.45pm.
"At this stage what we know is the young woman appears to have crashed her car into a fence at a Burger King on Dominion Rd in Auckland and has gone into the store upset, demanding her front registration plate, that had fallen off the vehicle, back.
"Some time later an off-duty Police officer has phone North Comms about a car being driven erratically, weaving across the road on SH1 near Huntly. An alert has gone out over the radio to be on the lookout for the car and a short time later a patrol car has tried to pull over the vehicle."
Mr Tooman said in the dark, the officer thought a car pulling over and stopping on the south side of Huntly was the offending vehicle and by the time she realised it wasn't the Volkswagon Golf had sped off towards Taupiri.
"Continuing on the officer noticed an object on the road and a man standing waving his arms by the bridge on the north side of Taupiri, continuing on until she could turn around the officer returned to find the Golf had failed to negotiate a bend at the bridge and instead driven through barriers and hit a tree."
"The 16-year-old female driver was seriously injured in the crash and taken to Waikato Hospital by ambulance and we're currently looking into matters leading up to when her car left the road," he said.
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