By Tracey Roxburgh and Daisy Hudson for the Otago Daily Times.

One person has been seriously injured after a car crashed into a building in Queenstown this morning.

Photo: ODT / Tracey Roxburgh

A police spokesperson said police were called regarding a car that had crashed into a building on Gorge Road at 10.33am.

A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesman said firefighters had extracted one person from the vehicle, who was handed into the care of ambulance staff.

Two Queenstown fire crews were at the scene.

A reporter at the scene said the car had crashed over a bank and into Gorge Road Retail Centre.

The car was on its side between the bank and the retail centre.

St John said two ambulances attended the crash and one person was transported to Lakes District Hospital in a serious condition.

- This story first appeared in the Daily Times.