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GEORGIA-MAY GILBERTSON / STUFF / Stuff
Emergency services were called for an incident in Napier early Saturday morning.
Police divers are working to inspect a car that fell into the water in Napier in the early hours of Saturday morning. Stuff understand the car was stolen.
Emergency services were called to Meeanee Quay in Westshore around 5.10am. M.
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A police spokeswoman said the vehicle was seen in the area around 5 a.m. before it entered the water.
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The car has veered 500 meters downstream.
The car was now submerged and police said it had not been confirmed how many people were in the car when it entered the water.
A police officer on the scene said Stuff reporters that the car had strayed 500 meters down the estuary and the last thing they saw of the car was its trunk.
Police received multiple reports of illegal vehicle seizures in the Napier and Hastings area overnight.
A vehicle, believed to have been stolen, was also found in a ditch near Douglas McLean Ave.
Police are continuing to investigate these reports.
