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A trucker’s camera has captured the moment he narrowly avoided a head-on collision with a car driven the wrong way along the Kāpiti Expressway north of Wellington.
Ron Clouston was heading north on the four-lane highway when the driver forced him to veer left to avoid a head-on collision Tuesday afternoon.
“It would have been about 100 kilometers, easy,” he said.
“I thought it was going to slow down, but it kept coming.
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“He didn’t panic, he didn’t do anything, he just kept looking.
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A trucker couldn’t believe it when he saw a car heading straight for him, on the wrong side of the Kāpiti highway.
“I just put the brakes on and turned left, and he passed,” he said.
The man was driving an older model Toyota Camry and did not stop after the near-failure, Clouston said.
After stopping, Clouston called the police.
The incident scared him a little, and he had never seen anything like it before.
Police were still trying to find the driver, a spokeswoman said.
“At around 1.30 p.m., the police received a report from an informant who witnessed the driving of a vehicle in the wrong lane along the MacKays and Peka Peka expressways.
“The police are conducting investigations to locate the said driver,” he said.
