Photo: RNZTwo bodies have been found inside a car that was discovered upside down in a stream in rural Wellington this morning. Police, fire crews and Wellington Free Ambulance were called to the crash in Mākara just after 8am. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) shift manager Alex Norris said crews arrived to find a car partially submerged in the stream on Mākara Beach Rd - a narrow, winding road between Karori and Mākara Beach. Our neighbour told me it's quite a common place where people go off - there's about a two- to three-metre drop from the road down to the stream. The road skirts a small stream bordered by wire fencing down the bank from Mākara Rd.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 25, 2026 08:05 UTC