Car traps man's legs

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A driver had his legs trapped in the door of his car after the handbrake failed on a steep driveway in Auckland yesterday.

The 56-year-old had parked his Mazda outside his Glenfield Rd home just before 6pm.

Birkenhead Fire Station officer Shane Doughty said the car rolled into a fence and pinned the man's legs between the car door and a wooden post.

"We cut the fence away from the car. He was taken away by ambulance with cuts to his legs," Doughty said.