Truck crushes driver

• February
• 26

12:35 am Trucks

A 30-year-old man was seriously injured after the logging truck he was driving rolled on Wright Rd in Matakana last Tuesday.

The man was thrown from the truck, and was treated for serious crush injuries before being transported by helicopter to Auckland Hospital.

The truck is a stem truck, an off-road logging truck used in the bush, says sergeant Bede Haughey of the Warkworth police.

“We don’t know the cause of the incident, but the truck has been removed and examined to check for mechanical failure.”

He says the man’s injuries are believed to be abdominal and pelvic and happened as he was thrown through the cab.