Two taken to hospital after Germantown car crash

TWO people were taken to hospital after their car crashed on private property at Germantown around 4.15pm on ANZAC Day. Myrtleford police said the vehicle's front passenger tyre caught the left shoulder of the road beside a gully on the property. "To avoid the vehicle rolling sideways, the driver in his 80s turned the car into the slope to go down the hill, facing forwards," Leading Senior Constable Bernard Murphy said. "The hill caused the vehicle to gain significant speed during the descent, before the car rebounded off a tree below, then rolled backwards and stopped up against a concrete gate and stay, with the wheels up off the ground. "The response in this instance was very, very quick: there were two ambulances present and about five CFA and 10 SES members, who had already removed the vehicle doors by the time we got to the scene half-an-hour later." Bright SES unit controller Graham Gales said removing the driver and the female passenger in her 70s from the vehicle was a fairly straightforward extraction. “We were able to remove the B-pillar, located between the front and rear doors, before removing the occupants of the car," he said. "We soon got them onto the stretchers and back to the awaiting ambulances.” The occupants were both taken to Northeast Health Wangaratta for treatment.

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