Motorists stopped to help clear State Highway 3 of heavy logs after a truck spilled its load yesterday.
The fully-laden truck-and-trailer unit - operated by Green Transport of Taupo - was emerging from a side road on the Nukumaru straight near Waitotara when it spilled logs all over the carriageway.
Fortunately no other vehicles were in the immediate vicinity and there were no reports of injuries. However, a motorist who witnessed the incident said it was "lucky no one was killed".
The trailer ended up in a roadside ditch. Patea and Waitotara fire crews attended the accident.