Odd accidents 2009

ROCKED BUT NOT ROLLED: A tonne of rock in one of Wellington's Happy Valley Rd sculptures hangs over the crashed car.

CAR SURFING: A woman who fell asleep in her car at Orewa Beach woke to find the tide had come in.

ON A ROLL: Silverdale fire station’s newest truck took itself for a spin down the station’s driveway and across the Hibiscus Coast Highway.

STUCK: A truck wedged under the Petone overbridge.

STUCK: A truck wedged under the Petone overbridge.

The vehicle is believed to have rolled twice before landing in this Arrowtown swimming pool.

A crane had to be called in to remove the vehicle from the swimming pool.

Unintended consequences for a woman parking her car in a hi-tech Wellington lift.

ON THE ROCKS: The $50,000 Porsche Boxster is probably a writeoff, and police say Dean Owens is lucky he wasn't too.

SMASH: The car which crashed into a foyer of a Wellington building.

GARDEN CAR: An 82-year-old woman careered through six fences in Rolleston.

OFF ROAD: An 82-year-old woman careered through six fences in Rolleston.

A car drives into the Waikanae River last month.

UNWANTED VISITOR: A Fonterra milk tanker demolished an empty building in Patea after running into it last month.