Passenger abandoned

DRIVER RUNS FROM CHAOTIC CRASH

A DRIVER abandoned an injured passenger in an overturned car when he fled a dramatic crash in Thomson yesterday.

Witnesses say the Holden Commodore swerved across St Albans Rd at high speed before taking out two front fences and coming to rest on its roof in the front yard of a house.

Fence palings were left embedded in the wreckage of the car and a 3-4 metre tree was ripped from the ground.

Debris from the crash is understood to have flown into the front window of a neighbouring property.

The driver, a man in his 20s, ran away following the crash about 11.30am and had not been apprehended late yesterday.

Motorist Tamara Hunter was left visibly shaken after witnessing the crash.

She said the car had been trying to overtake her at speed when the driver lost control.

“It was driving along so erratically and came up behind me just flying,” she said.

“He swerved around me and nearly hit another car head-on then just lost it.

“I drive this road every day with my kids who are four and five, it’s just frightening, another few metres and it would’ve gone straight into the other house.”

Ms Hunter said the driver scrambled from the wreck and fled on foot east along St Albans Rd, leaving his passenger trapped in the overturned car.

“He just took off at a jog,” she said.

“The passenger, he was so disorientated and kept asking where he was before trying to get away too.”

Senior Constable Andy Law said the passenger, also believed to be a man aged in his 20s, suffered a head gash, neck soreness and cuts and bruises, and was taken to Geelong hospital for treatment.

“Neighbours were left quite shocked,” Constable Law said.

“The debris from the car smashed the window of a nearby home after it brought the tree down and rolled

“CFA attended to help with the clean-up, with the car needing to be towed from the scene.”