When Brendon Langley saw a fully laden logging truck bearing down on him, his muscles tightened and he didn't know what to do. The 23-year-old's company car was shunted 10m along Te Puke's Jellicoe St yesterday afternoon and emergency services say he's lucky to be alive. "I had no time to think,it was only when I got out that it sank in," he said from Tauranga Hospital after the crash. "I was shaking." Mr Langley was in Te Puke on business as a sales rep for an Auckland-based wire company. He was heading to his next appointment at Boucher Ave when he was struck by the fully laden truck heading towards the Port of Tauranga around 2.15pm. "It was a very short-lived visit," he said. "All I remember was getting out of the car. I'm very lucky but I've got to come back next week. I only made one appointment. "I'm just very sore but I'm still alive. I got taken to hospital for a check-up as St John Ambulance were very surprised I'm still walking." Mr Langley's wife drove down from the couple's Waiuku home to collect him. Te Puke chief fire officer Glenn Williams said Mr Langley was very fortunate. "He was lucky the truck didn't go over the top of him," Mr Williams said. "Fortunately there was no passenger because the door was pushed well in. "There was only superficial damage to the truck but it couldn't drive off because the logs had moved forwards a bit." Mr Langley's main concern was for the welfare of the truck driver, who was also uninjured but said to be shaken by the incident. Te Puke police Constable Pete Mitchell said they were still investigating the crash and no decision had yet been made about whether anyone will face charges. The road was closed for about half-an-hour as fire crews cleared the scene. Mr Mitchell said the truck driver went to Puke Pine to get his logs re-loaded.
