Officers first saw the vehicle around 9:15am, then found it abandoned around two hours later. A witness reported nine police cars were heading north through Carterton earlier this afternoon.

Emergency services were called Tarata Road, about 2.30pm yesterday after a quad bike rolled on the road - next to paddocks. The person was critically injured, and died at the scene.

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