His mishap prompted Dunedin man John Lamb, who captured the moment on his camera, to suggest Mr Bryant listen to his own advice, after hearing him telling Radio New Zealand National about the city's snowy conditions.
Mr Bryant had said the hilltop suburbs had become "difficult to travel to and from".
Asked about the incident yesterday, he blamed the situation on his unwavering drive to serve the city.
"I was making my way to work as a dedicated employee of the ratepayer," Mr Bryant assured the Otago Daily Times.
He said he was driving in first gear at less than 5kmh, when he had "a gentle gutser", resulting in his car hitting the kerb in Highgate, near the Roslyn Village, before being pinned there by a larger vehicle, about 9am.
Mr Bryant was not the only member of the communications industry who came to grief yesterday.
Senior communications adviser for the Land Transport Agency Bob Nettleton, who has many years' experience as a motoring writer, crashed his late model Ford in Signal Hill Rd.
He said he received a few cuts to his hand, was too shaken to go to work and "got a hell of a fright".
Mr Nettleton said he walked the road first and thought it looked fine.
"It must have just iced up and it was like a sheet of ice."
Automobile Association Otago Manager Nick Horn chose to spend the morning at home, after he was unable to drive to Dunedin from his Waitati home because the Northern Motorway was closed.
