Tanker mishap closes road
Timaru reporter State Highway One was closed for more than five hours at Arowhenua, near Temuka, yesterday after this 28-tonne New Zealand Industrial Gases tanker ran off the road outside the Arowhenua Hotel at 9 a.m.
Traffic had to detour around the section of road until after 2 p.m. when two cranes lifted the tanker to a horizontal position and blocks were placed beneath it. The dangerous job of setting the tanker back on the road and moving it away
from the scene of the accident took a further hour and a half. The tanker ran off the road while travelling south in drizzly weather from Christchurch to Invercargill. “The road gave way,” said the chief fire officer (Mr R. G. Carlaw). The tanker, tilted at a precarious angle on the edge
of the newly-constructed unsealed approach to the new Opihi River bridge, was attached to an eight-tonne road roller to prevent it tipping over a bank. The Timaru Fire Brigade sent one appliance to the scene of the accident and the Temuka Volunteer Fire Brigade sent three appliances. The tanker appeared to be undamaged.
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Press, 2 March 1982, Page 3
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