Lucky escape

A tyre delivery driver and his woman passenger had a lucky escape from injury when this truck careered off the road south of Eketahuna yesterday morning, overturned and slid into a fence. The truck was on a delivery from the Hutt Valley and travelling north when the crash happened. Constable Peter Knight, of Pahiatua police, said the cause of the crash had been determined as "driver fatigue". He said the crash happened about 4.45am and the state highway was reduced to a single lane for around four hours as the hefty vehicle was put back on its wheels and towed to Palmerston North.