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Two people are “extremely lucky” to have survived a freak accident on Saturday night, after the van they were driving hit a cow and then took out a power pole on the Moutere Highway. The Nelson Fire Service was called out around 9pm to assist the Richmond and Appleby crews with the rescue. It is understood a cow escaped from its nearby paddock and was on the road when the van hit it. The male driver of the van was able to get out of the vehicle but a female passenger had to be cut out. Nelson station officer Craig Davies says fire crews used the Jaws of Life and spreaders, and it took more than an hour to free the female passenger. “The power lines were down so they had to wait to be isolated before they could do any work, otherwise you get electrocuted. It was a long, drawn-out extrication.” He says the people in the van were lucky to be alive and, if the
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The van that hit a cow on the Moutere Highway on Saturday night before smashing into a power pole.
power pole was any closer to either side of the vehicle, then they probably would have lost their lives. “The people were extremely lucky, very rarely do you see a van hit a cow and a power pole and not have any fatalities. It was like it was stapled right through the centre of the van, underneath the van, across the front and over the top.” Both passengers were taken away by ambulance. The female passenger suffered a broken tibia, a split lip and broke some teeth. The cow was killed. Police were at the scene, diverting traffic.
Felix Harper, Mahera Wiki, Ruby Campbell and Shepherd Joice were amongst the 16 senior students from Rotoiti School to take part in the glider flights last Wednesday. Photo: Jessie Johnston.
Students take to the skies Rotoiti School quite literally took education to a whole new level last Wednesday when they were treated to a glider flight. Thanks to small community contacts, the school was approached by the Nelson Lakes Gliding Club and offered the chance to experience a flight in a glider. Each of the sixteen senior students of the primary school were taken up in one of two gliders
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and spent around 10 minutes in the air, sailing over the airstrip and taking in the stunning views. President of the club, Nick White, says the decision to take the kids and their parents for a glide was also down to doing something nice and putting back
into the community, where they as members often spend their time. “There was quite a good line when I started, someone said, ‘the difference between gliding and power planes is when you go on a glider flight you want it to be as exciting as possible, and on a power flight you want it to
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