Auckland traffic: Car flips on Western Motorway – citybound lanes slow or stopped up

A car has flipped soon after the Ōnewa on-ramp on SH1 motorway. Image / Waka Kotahi NZTA

Citybound motorists are being advised to avoid Auckland’s Harbour Bridge after a car turned onto its roof.

Emergency services are answering the crash, which is now embarrassing citybound lanes.

The car flipped just after the Ōnewa on-ramp.

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Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Outfit issued an alert at 11. 40am, telling motorists that the right lane, citybound, are now blocked.

UPDATE 12: 00PM
Please delay your journey of this from the North Shore or consider utilizing SH18/16 as an alternative with lanes plugged after Onewa Rd, before the Harbor Bridge. Tow services are on journey. ^TP https://t.co/JavlXea6Bw

— Waka Kotahi NZTA Auckland & Northland (@WakaKotahiAkNth) January 19, 2021

“Merge with benefit care in passing and depend on delays through this area. ”

A witness suggested the Herald she was powering in the opposite direction when this girl saw a vehicle suddenly fly included with the air.

“It was full flying in the air, type she said.

“I just saw it use about three or four times palpable in the air before landing. ”

The woman said she weren’t able to see what may have caused your vehicle to flip in the first place and in order to see the aftermath, as she can’t stop.

“It was quite freaky… there’s those a big traffic jam. ”

A St John spokeswoman said an ambulance was known to as to the scene at 11. 39am after reports of a motorvehicle dureté.

One person are actually treated in a moderate condition this being taken to Auckland City Healthcare.