State Highway 36 has closed and is not expected to re-open until late afternoon or early evening as contractors remove the logging truck that crashed into a river yesterday.
The logging truck went off the road and crashed into a river on Pyes Pa Rd yesterday afternoon.
A Bay of Plenty District Health Board spokeswoman said the driver, a 51-year-old Cambridge man, was now in a stable condition in Tauranga Hospital.
The incident happened about 4.30pm.
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