Police and Fire Service vehicles from Mangaweka and Hunterville were able to get the injured driver out of the wreckage and back up to the road. Photo / Supplied
A man in his 60s was airlifted to hospital after a roading repair truck rolled down a steep embankment in the Turakina Valley, northwest of Hunterville in Rangitikei this morning.
Police and Fire Service vehicles from Mangaweka and Hunterville were able to get the injured driver out of the wreckage and back up to the road.
He was treated by St John Ambulance staff.
The patient, a Feilding man, was airlifted to Palmerston North Hospital in a stable condition.
It is understood the accident occurred as he was turning round to dump soil down the bank.
The Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter was sent to the scene because of the distance to hospital and the potentially difficult extraction of the patient from the vehicle.
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