A woman has died after she was run over by a vehicle on the Far North's Karikari Peninsula.
Emergency services were called to a property on Virtue Crescent, Tokerau Beach after the accident happened early Wednesday morning.
"Initial enquiries indicate the victim was sleeping in a tent when she has been run over after the handbrake on a vehicle above her has failed and the vehicle has rolled down a hill," a police spokesperson says.
"Police enquiries into the circumstances of the incident are ongoing."
