Driver dies following milk tanker and car crash in South Taranaki

The driver of a car involved in a collision with a milk tanker in South Taranaki has died. By LEIGHTON KEITH.
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The 53-year-old Wellington man was airlifted to Taranaki Base Hospital in a critical condition following the crash, which happened about 9.35am at the intersection of Ohangai and Tawhiti roads, east of Hawera, on Wednesday.
Police would not be releasing the dead man’s name until his family had been notified.
The road around the crash site was cordoned off while the police CIB, commercial vehicle investigation and serious crash units surveyed the scene.
The death took Taranaki’s road toll for 2016 to 13 and the national road toll for the holiday period, which ends at 6am on January 4, to 11.
Sergeant Bruce Irvine said inquiries into the cause of the crash remained ongoing.
«The truck has rolled into a paddock,» Irvine said.
«The crash has happened at an intersection and we are investigating it.»
The driver of the car was flown to hospital in a critical condition by the Taranaki Community Rescue helicopter but later died.
«It is always tragic, it doesn’t matter if it’s Christmas or June,» Irvine said.
He urged drivers to take care on the roads for the remainder of the holiday period no matter where they were.
«It’s the age old message be alert, drive carefully, obey the road rules and concentrate on what’s going on around you.»
A Fonterra spokeswoman said the tanker driver had suffered a cut to his head but wasn’t seriously injured.
She said milk was leaking from the tanker but it was being contained in the paddock and wasn’t near a waterway.
Two fire engines, an ambulance and a number police cars attended the scene.
Jim Duthie, of the Tawhiti Museum, said one or two of the staff had heard the crash which happened just down the road from the museum.
He confirmed the road had been closed while emergency services worked at the scene.
 
Source: Stuff
Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/87979692/milk-tanker-rolls-in-south-taranaki
 

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