Car collides with milk tanker, driver seriously injured

10:38 AM Wednesday Dec 26, 2012

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Heavy lifting cranes are on their way to the scene of a milk tanker crash that is blocking State Highway 3 in the lower North Island.

The tanker and a car collided in Marton, sending the tanker into a ditch.

The driver of the car had to be extracted by fire crews and has been seriously injured.

Diversions are in place around the accident.