It is the love of Anna McLean's life, but her Mazda Axela is a ''magnet'' for trouble.
Miss McLean parked the car in the driveway at her workplace at 8.30am yesterday, and three hours later she was asked to move it by contractors working on the temporary courthouse, in High St, Dunedin. The reason?
''So their crane wouldn't hit my car,'' she said.
Minutes later, the administration and payroll office worker heard a loud crash while working in the building next door. She looked out and saw a telehandler - a telescopic forklift - had rolled over and was leaning against her car.
''I just yelled at the top of my lungs: 'OH. MY. GOD'.''
The crane driver appeared to have been thrown from the cab. He was lying down with glass cuts to his leg and was taken to Dunedin Hospital as a precaution.
Amalgamated Builders Ltd Dunedin manager Richard Johnston said the driver suffered minor injuries and was later discharged after his lucky escape.
Miss McLean was surprisingly upbeat about having to file her fifth, and most bizarre, insurance claim for the car she bought 18 months ago.
''My Mazda Axela is the love of my life. But it is a magnet ... it keeps getting hit when I am not in it.''
The car had been involved in a hit-and-run, and a panelbeater had crashed it, but ''this is the worst, definitely''.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is investigating the incident.
