Whanganui's "singing vegan" says she was lucky to escape relatively unharmed after her car rolled three times in a crash which left her dog needing $3000 worth of surgery.
Sandra Kyle - who stands vigil on Sundays outside Land Meat to protest the slaughter of animals for meat - lost control of her vehicle near Turakina.
Kyle said she spun out on fresh seal on her way back to Whanganui on Friday after recording her animal rights radio show Safe and Sound in Palmerston North.
"It was like driving on marbles," she said. "I was wobbling everywhere. I spun out across the road in the other direction and just missed a lamp post."
Witnesses in cars travelling behind said she rolled three times before her Toyota RAV4 crashed through a fence and landed in a paddock.