News Story
Members attended 4 incidents from mid-afternoon: the effects of 3 of these affected evening peak-hour commuters. The first was in Somerset Road Mt Roskill, a busy throughway skirting Mt Roskill Grammar School where a truck rolled, shedding its load of timber. The driver was unhurt. Members maintained roadblocks until heavy haulage cranes arrived, the truck and debris removed and the roadway made safe. Operational Support 1 was released from this call to go to an accident in Campbell Road, Onehunga, where a truck had brought power lines down across the major East-West thoroughfare. This resulted in major changes in peak-hour traffic patterns in a wide area, even with diversions in place. Almost as soon as members were clear of this incident there was a turn-out to another lines-down incident in Titirangi Road, but this was short-lived and those who responded went on to a three-car crash in Croydon Road, New Lynn. Members, assisted by 3 from Titirangi Operational Support, closed the roads while patients were treated and vehicles and debris removed from the carriageway.
