A 40-year-old man was flown to Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries yesterday after the utility vehicle he was driving crashed off the road at noon.
Senior Constable Stefan Witihera, of Palmerston, said the man was the sole occupant of the vehicle, which was travelling towards Dunback from Macraes Flat when it failed to take a sweeping right-hand bend on Macraes Rd. It rolled several times and ploughed through a fence before coming to rest the right way up.
The man managed to get out of the vehicle and walk up to the road before the Macraes mine first-response team arrived and advised him to lie down, Snr Const Witihera said.
He was not sure if the injured man had any involvement with the mine.
