Doing it in Auckland

Truck enters cycleway

JAFA DRIVERS, EH?

By LUKE PARKER - Western Leader | 5:00AM - Thursday, 03 June 2010

STICKY SITUATION: This truck got stuck on the cycleway next to the northwestern motorway. — Photo: JONATHAN BIXLEY.

PHOTOGRAPHER Jonathan Bixley says a truck was just inches away from getting stuck in a swamp after being driven along a cycleway adjoining the northwestern motorway.

The Te Atatu resident was on his way to drop off his girlfriend in the city when he spotted the drama unfolding in the opposite lane.

He stopped on his way back at 8am and took some pictures.

BIG TOW: A large tow truck came to the rescue
after having to pull down an area of fence.
— Photo: JONATHAN BIXLEY.

"One set of wheels was in the mud and right next to the swamp," Jonathan says. "The truck was centimetres away from going in. It could have very easily ended up on its side."

The 37-year-old says the truck had travelled a kilometre or so down the fenced-off cycleway before being unable to progress further.

Police, a tow truck and several workers came to the rescue. "They took down around 15 to 20 metres of fence to get him out," Jonathan says. Police are investigating.

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