UPDATED 12.28pm: A man is being treated for moderate injures after his fertiliser spreader crashed 100m down a bank.
Western Bay of Plenty road policing manager Senior Sergeant Ian Campion said it appeared the driver of a fertiliser spreading truck overturned and fallen about 100m down a bank on Pongakawa Bush Rd about 11.30am.
"It's gone down through native bush," he said.
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He was out of the truck and St John staff had treated him for moderate injuries, Mr Campion said.