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Missing Matai Bay woman found
Missing Matai Bay woman found
Police have found the woman who went missing from her Matai Bay home last night.
About 7.30pm 78-year-old Emma Skerman went for a drive in her vehicle with her two dogs.
Police were alerted when she didn’t return home.
Police searched the
Karikari Peninsula overnight without success.
The
searched was started again this morning.
About 10.15am
the woman’s car was found stuck in the mud about 200
metres from the beach, half a kilometre from the lighthouse
at the end of the peninsula.
The car became so embedded in
the mud that the woman was unable to open the doors, so has
she has spent the night in the car.
Police, with the help
of some community members, are now towing the car out of the
mud so they can free the woman.
An ambulance has been sent to the peninsula, so they can check on the woman’s condition.
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