A car ended up upside down on railway tracks after veering off the road and ploughing through a fence in Lower Hutt on Saturday nigh
Late-night train commuters in Wellington faced delays in the early hours of Sunday morning after a drunk driver veered off a Lower Hutt road and ploughed through a fence, with their car coming to rest upside down on railway tracks.
Police were called to the crash near Oxford Terrace, on the eastern side of Waterloo Train Station, about 11.15pm.
The car left the road, travelled 15 metres through a carpark and crashed through a wire fence, flipped, and wound up on its roof on the main Hutt Valley commuter line.
The car was removed from the railway tracks by a tow truck.
Ambulance staff treated the 21-year-old driver for minor injuries at the scene.
He was then taken to Lower Hutt Station and processed for excess breath alcohol, a police spokeswoman said.
All train services between Petone and Taita were suspended, with midnight and 1am trains between Wellington and Upper Hutt replaced by buses.
HVL: All services on the HVL will be bus replaced between PETO and TAIT untill further notice due to a car accident on the tracks at WATE.
— Metlink Wellington (@metlinkwgtn) April 29, 2017
HVL: The 12.05am & 1.05am svc WELL to UPPE & the 12.01am svc UPPE to WELL have been bus replaced due to a car accident on the track in WATE
— Metlink Wellington (@metlinkwgtn) April 29, 2017
The car had since been removed by a tow truck.
- Stuff
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