Trail of road damage in Wairarapa

Carterton firefighters and police at the scene of a two car collision on Dalefield Rd yesterday afternoon. PHOTO/NATHAN CROMBIE

Several travellers escaped serious injury during two crashes in Wairarapa that left roads strewn with damaged vehicles yesterday.

Masterton traffic policing Constable Dana Johanson said four young young men were involved in a single car crash in Manuka St in the town after a rear wheel of their car clipped a kerb while travelling down the Lansdowne hill road soon after 12.30pm.

The Nissan car that toppled a length of fence on Manuka St in Masterton. PHOTO/NICOLA JEFFERIES

The 18-year-old driver over-corrected and lost control of the late model Nissan sedan, which ploughed through a high fence and came to rest straddling the roadside berm.

Ms Johanson said the driver had received minor leg injuries when he climbed from the damaged car and his three passengers had escaped injury.

Carterton deputy fire chief Brian Styles said four people also had been involved in a two car collision on Dalefield Rd about 3.20pm involving a late model Commodore sedan towing a caravan and a Nissan SUV.

An elderly man was driving the sedan and his wife was a front seat passenger, Mr Styles said, and two men were travelling in the Nissan 4x4 vehicle.

Both cars received extensive frontal damage and the sedan was damaged along its right hand side as well, he said. The direction the cars had been travelling and the cause of the collision was yet to be established. The driver of the SUV and the elderly couple were taken to Wairarapa Hospital by ambulance for assessment and the other male passenger escaped injury. Police had started a preliminary scene examination.