Motorists are being advised to avoid the York Road/Flaxmere Avenue roundabout, on State Highway 50A following a truck crash.
The York Rd and Marekakaho Rd intersection, and southbound lane at the York Rd/SH50A roundabout will be closed for a short time this afternoon while a crane moves a truck that has rolled over.
Hawke's Bay Police senior constable Andy Clinton said police were alerted at about 10am after the southbound truck overturned at the SH50A roundabout at the intersection with York Rd, south of Hastings.
The driver of the truck and trailer unit was uninjured, but the vehicle tipped on its side dislodging its container load of 21 tonnes of steel rods, he said.
"There's nothing hazardous there - no fluids going onto the road and we don't know yet whether it was speed or driver error."