A police vehicle that flipped going at high speed on Auckland's Southern Motorway this morning was switching lanes to overtake vehicles when it lost control and went airborne, a witness says.
The police officer escaped with minor injuries after their car crashed while driving on Auckland's Southern Motorway near the Highbrook off-ramp at about 7.30am.
But a motorist who was travelling in the northbound lane, heading in the opposite direction to the police cars when the crash happened say the officer is "blessed" and is surprised they didn't get more serious injuries.
The police car was following two or three other police cars all travelling at high speed and was on the inside lane when the driver got stuck behind other cars so decided to swerve across two lanes, the witness said.
"It was unbelievable what happened ... He switched three lanes at high speed and there was something of a bend on the motorway and he lost control of his car. It went airborne, it was unbelievable. I was - like anybody who must have saw it - was white with shock."
