One person is in a critical condition after two people were struck while using a pedestrian crossing by a car in Auckland.

The vehicle collided with the pedetrians near Kingsland Station on Sandringham Road just before 8:15am on Thursday morning.

Police say one person, understood to be an adolescent child, is in critical condition, and the other is in moderate condition.

The Serious Crash Unit attended the scene.

Motorists have been asked to avoid the area.

Newshub.