Two women and a man were injured in a head-on crash on State Highway 6 about 15km north of Makarora about 6.30pm yesterday.
Emergency services, including two helicopters, two St John ambulances and the Makarora and Lake Hawea Volunteer Fire Brigades, were still at the accident scene at 9pm.
One car went over a bank after the crash near Cameron Creek. It is understood at least one of the injured was to be airlifted to Dunedin Hospital.
A group of young German and English trampers returning from a trip in the Haast area attended to the injured until emergency services arrived.
• Police said the driver of one car involved in a crash near Cromwell yesterday afternoon might have fallen asleep.
Sergeant Simon Paget, of Cromwell, said the male driver of a northbound car appeared to have fallen asleep at the wheel on State Highway 8 about 10km north of Cromwell, crossed the centreline and clipped a southbound car about 3.30pm.
The driver of the northbound car, an Irish national living in Ashburton, was the sole occupant of that car; the southbound car had a male driver and female passenger, holidaymakers from the United Kingdom. All escaped injury, although both cars were extensively damaged.
The northbound car's driver had been charged with careless use of a vehicle and would appear in the Alexandra District Court, Sgt Paget said.
• The occupants of a car and a camper van escaped with minor injuries after a crash near Roxburgh last night.
Emergency services were called to Roxburgh East Rd just before 7.30pm, but ambulance staff were later stood down, Southern deployment co-ordinator Senior Sergeant Craig Brown, of Dunedin, said.
