The car was in water near the intersection with Awhitu Road and Mayhead Road.

Emergency services arrived to find a woman dead in the vehicle.

Enquiries into what happened are under way.

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21 Dec: Police are investigating an unexplained death after a person was found unresponsive in the water in Rotorua's Waiotapu

21 Dec: Emergency services are at the scene of a single-vehicle crash on the Waikato Expressway (SH1), northbound, near Hampton Downs

21 Dec: The Police Commissioner will be working Lyn Fleming's Nelson New Years shift in her memory - one year after her death

21 Dec: The northbound on-ramp at Tawa on State Highway 1 is closed in Wellington following a crash this morning

20 Dec: Four people have been injured, one seriously, following a three-vehicle crash in Dunsandel in Canterbury

20 Dec: Emergency services are at the scene of a serious two-vehicle crash on State Highway One in Northland's Kaiwaka

20 Dec: State Highway 2, Dannevirke is closed near Piripiri Road following a crash

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