A truck driver who crashed through a barrier in a dramatic Auckland motorway smash yesterday morning says the crash is "a blur" and all he remembers is seeing a paramedic open his cab door.
Brendon Greig, 47, from Cambridge, was on his usual route from Hamilton to Whangarei when the truck smashed through a barrier, plunged down a bank and on to the motorway below at Auckland's Spaghetti Junction about 5.15am.
Speaking from his hospital bed at Auckland City Hospital this afternoon, Mr Greig said the whole thing was a blur and a daze to him.
Asked what he remembered from the crash, he said: "Nothing. The first thing I really remember is the ambulance officer standing at the door, and reading in the paper that the ambulance must have been there virtually when it happened."
The photographs of the crashed truck were "pretty horrific", he said.
"It was the airbags in the truck that saved me, and the way the truck's actually landed, rather than rolling over. It's quite scary."
The truck landed on its wheels, gouging part of the motorway out - Mr Greig's partner Angela Rotherham, sitting by his side and holding his hand, joked he had "parallel parked it".
By Patrice Dougan of NZME. News Service
