Tauranga fire fighters called to a car crash 16km up Pyes Pa Road last night arrived to find the 23-year-old driver being tended to by a team of first aiders on a training exercise.
'They had been doing some training there and were looking after him,” says Greerton Station officer Steve Wright.
Fire services from Greerton attended a crash on Pyes Pa Road last night.
'The car rolled,” says Steve. 'When we got there the guy was out of the car.
The first aiders were looking after the man and handed him over to the ambulance crew when they arrived. Tauranga St John ambulance said the man had suffered minor injuries.
The accident was on a sweeping bend 16.6km up Pyes Pa Road. The fire brigade was called at 5.48pm.
'It was in a bush area,” adds Steve.'He lost control on a sweeping bend and rolled the car.
'He was on his own and wasn't trapped.
'He won't have a very good Christmas because I think it was his friend's car. He's probably got one less friend over Christmas.”
3 comments
Speed
Posted on 18-12-2014 11:05 | By DandP
I saw this vehicle on the way to work this morning. Cant imagine why he rolled as at 100km, the speed limit, no one would have any problems going around this corner !!!!
Blue Boy
Posted on 18-12-2014 17:01 | By BlueBoy
One thing I have noticed on the roads around the Bay and mainly Tauranga that their are a number of people who would dare to call themselves drivers "yea right" who think they own the road and every thing revolves around them. They don't seem to thing the road rules apply to them and everybody is an inconvenience and needs to get out of their way. When I am out on the road and doing the speed limit and the person behind feels I should move over and let them go well maybe but if I did that for everybody it would take me a lot longer to get to where I would like to be so why should I. Just by me holding the speedster up might save somebodies life who knows.
Blue Boy
Posted on 23-12-2014 14:56 | By The Commentor
Clearly if there are that many people urging you to pull over and let them past that it would hold you up it's highly unlikely that you are doing the speed limit. You might thing you are, but you likely are not. It's arrogant people like you who ignore the rules/good practice of keeping left and pulling over to allow faster traffic to pass that actually cause serious accidents. How do you know that the next person desperate to get past you is not rushing someone to hospital or a volunteer emergency responder?
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