Drivers unhurt in power pole crashes

Eketahuna firefighters were scrambled to two unrelated road crashes involving cars that struck power poles in the district on Sunday night.

Eketahuna Fire chief Max Mayer had to travel barely a kilometre from his home on Sunday night to attend the first of two unrelated road crashes involving cars that ploughed into power poles.

Mr Mayer said the first emergency call was fielded about 8pm and involved a woman, aged in her 20s, who had lost control of her vehicle on Nireaha Rd and struck a power pole within a kilometre of his home.

The woman was the sole occupant of the vehicle and was out of the car when Mr Mayer stopped to check the scene on his round trip to the Eketahuna Fire Station and back.

"The young lady had sideswiped a power pole and dropped a couple of wires but she was out and uninjured when I stopped to check on the way to the station."

He returned with a fire crew to the crash scene to which police and an ambulance were also scrambled.

He said the collision had failed to cut the power supply to his home although the pole needed replacement and the vehicle had received moderate damage.

"It wasn't a write-off and most of the damage was towards the back end."

Mr Mayer said he and his volunteer crew were called to a second road crash involving a single occupant vehicle colliding with a power pole on SH2 near Hamua at about midnight.

He said a man, in his 20s, had been travelling south on SH2 when he lost control of his vehicle and crossed the centre line, slamming head-on into a power pole.

Police and ambulance officers attended the scene and the man, who escaped the car unaided, was assessed and found to be uninjured.

Mr Mayer said the power pole had been left hanging precariously and police had closed the road while Powerco workers replaced the pole.