The bus and car crash has emergency response units scrambling to help injured passengers. Photo: NZ HeraldTwo people are in a critical condition after a bus and a car collided, sending the bus careering down a bank near Akaroa, on Banks Peninsula, this evening. A tourist bus has crashed down a hill near Akaroa. Police were told there were 32 people aboard the bus when it went off the road near the Hilltop Tavern. Emergency services are responding to a tourist bus crash near Akaroa.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 22, 2017 04:55 UTC