A truck driver died on the spot from critical injuries he received after crashing into some trees.
A 54-year-old man died after the logging truck he was driving crashed into a tree laden bank in Whangārei.
Police were called to Mangakahia Road in Tītoki on Monday at 12.20pm where the truck had blocked both lanes.
Serious crash unit analyst Jeff Cramp said the driver died
at the scene from critical injuries received when the truck crashed head-on into trees.
He said police were still determining what went wrong but understood the logging truck had crossed the centre line and road before crashing into the bank. The cab had been completely destroyed.
“The rest of the truck and its trailing unit had rolled over and blocked the road. Aside from a few logs which got displaced on impact, most of them were tightly strapped by chains and weren’t an issue.”
