By XAVIER SMERDON
WYNDHAM’S firefighters were called to a horrific accident last week to find something looking more like a scrunched up piece of paper than a car.
At 10.49 am on Monday morning last week members of the Werribee, Hoppers Crossing and Point Cook Fire Brigades attended the three car pile-up at Sneydes Rd, near Hoppers Lane in Werribee.
On arrival they found two vehicles had collided head on and a third vehicle was slightly damaged about 300 metres West of the intersection.
A seriously injured man was “severely trapped” within his Mitsubishi sedan, according to First Lieutenant of the Werribee Fire Brigade, Darryl Wells.
“Werribee Volunteer Rescue Firefighters, using the ‘jaws of life’ hydraulic rescue equipment, removed the drivers’ side door and folded the roof back to access the patient during which time paramedics were stabilising the patient,” Mr Wells said.
“The patient was then placed on a spine board, firefighters and paramedics then removed him from the vehicle to an ambulance stretcher, he was then placed in a MICA Ambulance for further treatment then transported to hospital. The patient was trapped for some 20 minutes before being removed.”
Lieutenant Wells said Wyndham drivers needed to make an attempt to be safer on the municipality’s roads.
“The Werribee CFA Rescue Unit is the third busiest rescue unit for road crash rescue in the State from recently released CFA figures, a sad reflection on drivers in Wyndham,” he said.
