Car drives off cliff in Coromandel

Two people are being flown to hospital after their car ran off a cliff just south of Whangamata in the Coromandel.

Police were alerted at 9.11am today after the car left State Highway 25 between Parakiwai Quarry Rd and Whiritoa Beach.

St John ambulance tweeted that a rescue helicopter has been sent to take two patients to Waikato Hospital.

Their conditions were not yet clear.