'I gave him a prolonged toot' - Witness nearly hit by station wagon before it smashed into parked car on Auckland motorway

April 22, 2018

One person is in critical condition after the incident on the Southern Motorway on Saturday.


A witness to a horrific two-car crash on Auckland's Southern Motorway yesterday says he was almost hit by the vehicle before seeing it crash into a parked car at full speed moments later.

Allan Nicholls has told the New Zealand Herald he was travelling on the motorway with his wife when they narrowly missed being sideswiped by a station wagon just before the Otahuhu off-ramp.

"I gave him a prolonged toot on the horn because he was driving dangerously," Mr Nicholls said.

He said the driver of the station wagon began driving erratically, weaving in and out of traffic.

"As we passed, my wife remarked that he looked totally out of it and I could see that he was smoking a cigarette and looking straight ahead, but it just didn't look at all right."

Mr Nicholls said was observing the driver in his rearview mirror when he saw him drive full-speed into a car parked on the emergency strip on the motorway.

A crash on the Southern Motorway in Auckland on Saturday, April 21.

"I saw him hit that other car going sideways from the impact and what was left of his car fly into the air and land on the middle of the motorway," he said.

The crash brought traffic to a standstill in all southbound lanes between East Tamaki Road and Te Irirangi Drive.

Police said one person was critically injured in the incident while the driver of the stationary car, who remains in hospital in a stable but serious condition, had her pelvis broken in two places.

Another passenger in the parked car had her back broken in two places and suffered a broken leg following the incident.

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