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No one was injured or caught in the accident, and emergency services were now on the scene.
A bus in Auckland ran off the road and crashed into a tree, and emergency services are faced with a difficult task to get it out.
No one was injured or trapped in the accident, which occurred around 7 p.m. Monday.
A Fire & Emergency spokesperson said a team was cleaning “a small amount” of oil from the road.
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Laura O’Gorman’s Tesla captured the moment when lightning struck her friend’s property, while she was picking up her daughter.
The bus lost control on Riddell Rd in Glendowie and crashed through a barrier, fell off a ledge and fell into a tree.
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Surprisingly, no one was injured and emergency services were pulling the vehicle out.
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The bus crashed into a barrier and fell onto a lower street.
Things understands there was only one passenger on the bus at the time of the accident.
Driving conditions were poor in Auckland at the time of the accident, due to heavy rains that hit many areas on Monday.
MetService said the worst was yet to come with heavy rain, hail and thunderstorms over the next two days.
Video captured by Aucklander Laura O’Gorman a few hours earlier showed lightning striking the ground near her friend’s property in St. Heliers.
O’Gorman parked his Tesla Model S outside and went to pick up his five-year-old daughter when he heard “a massive boom.”
The car’s monitoring system captured the explosion.
No one was injured, but the power went out on her friend’s property, she said.
