Truck crash on Te Ohaki rd Huntly,

Allen from Huntly

Hi people on the Wedensday 20 - 06 - 2018 at 6 - 40am still dark (morning), I was travelling north and had a truck and trailer, fully loaded 44 tonnes of roading metal roll over, on Te Ohaki rd approx 300 - 500metres south of Maurea Marae. I was travelling 70 - 80kms p/hr on Te Ohaki rd from Huntly to my destination, off Glen Murray rd, and upon approaching the bend just south of Maurea Marae, and approx 2-3kms away, I noticed 2 vehicles coming towards me, the leading vehicle was a truck and trailer unit same as mine, and the 2nd vehicle was a small car or ute, all that was visible in the dark were their lights. As the truck and trailer drew closer towards me, I then recognized the unit as fellow operator, the 2nd vehicle car/ute was very close to the rear of the truck and trailer as tho preparing for overtaking manoeuvre, and in antisipating the car/ute, I removed my foot from the go pedal (accelerator), my speed at the point was 70 -80kms p/hr, as the 2 truck and trailer units drew closer towards each other, the car , at this point i could fully recognize, as a car and not ute, decided to pull out and overtake the truck and trailer, this is car coming at me HEAD ON in MY LANE, I flashed my lights, and at a guess it would have been less than 150m from where the car started the overtaking to where I was, and still guessing we were all in the speed range of 60 - 90kms p/hr, the car kept coming at me, I flashed my lights again, a this point I could outline the driver of the truck and trailer from their in cab dash light reflection, and now I was at that WTF moment, and decided to run my unit to far left off me in the water table. The very last thing I saw at approx 60 -70kms p/hr, as I manoeuvered my unit to avoid KILLING this idiot in the car, was the 3 of us abreast, 1 truck and trailer heading south towards Huntly in his rightful lane, a car heading south in my lane, while I was trying to control my loaded unit in the water table on loose gravel. I crashed.
The message here people, is the bridge at Rangariri over the Waikato river has a camera, no other human being was injured, I am still alive. cheers Allen 021783949