Emergency services respond to accident on world's steepest street / Otago Daily Times
Fire crews and police attended an accident in the world's steepest street yesterday.
The accident closed Baldwin St, in Northeast Valley, Dunedin, shortly before 4pm on Christmas day.
A video shared on social media showed tourists filming as smoke billowed from the car's wheels before it went backwards down thehill and ended up on the footpath.
A witness said a Honda people mover, heavily laden with boxes in the boot and back seat, was struggling to climb the street, which has a gradient of 1:2.86 at its steepest point.
The engine was whining and its wheels began to spin, before it slid backwards into a power pole, the witness said.
