Driver walks away with no memory of car landing in ditch near Westmere

The car ended up about 50 metres from where it went off the road. Photo/ Bevan Conley

The driver of a car that went through a fence just north of Whanganui walked away with no memory of what had happened.

Police were called to the scene at about 10.45am on Friday to find a silver sedan stuck in a ditch about 50m from where the fence was flattened - showing where the car went off the road.

Two police officers, four fire trucks and an ambulance attended the scene on State Highway 3 near Kai Iwi.

Senior Constable Phillip Randal said it was fortunate no other cars were involved in the accident.

The car was traveling towards Whanganui and had just the driver, who has been taken by ambulance to hospital to be checked.

Senior Constable Phillip Randal said the driver had no recollection of how he went off the road.

"Elderly gentleman, can't remember what happened. He was heading east and next thing you know he was off the road," he said.

"So we think it's probably a medical [incident]. But he's conscious, like he got himself out, managed to scramble up here and a tanker driver saw him.

"He's gone very shallow. He would have come around the bend and just come across, sort of kept coming around the bend I'd say. Just came on that angle and just straight across."

He's talking, knows where he is, "he thinks he's blacked out", Randal said.

He said there were no road closures and it was fortunate no other cars were involved.

A tow driver was called to pull the car out of the ditch.