A truck driver who crashed into Buller river and was saved after a dramatic two-hour rescue is in a stable condition.
A whitewater rafting expert, jetboat, and a raft were involved in rescuing the driver, aged about 50, who was trapped in his partially submerged cab.
The driver had been travelling south on State Highway 6 towards Murchison in an empty logging truck about 10am yesterday when the truck failed to take a bend, went through a fence, across a paddock and over a 30 metre bank into the river, police said.
He was stabilised and flown to Nelson Hospital, and is now in a stable condition in intensive care, a hospital spokeswoman said.
