CAMERA MAY GIVE CLUES ON CR ASH
POLICE will examine traffic camera footage to help determine the cause of a nasty crash at Bell Park that put two people in hospital.
The two-vehicle smash took place just a few hundred metres from where a woman lost her life in a crash last week.
Police, the SES and CFA were called to the intersection of Thompson Rd and Separation St about 11am yesterday.
The crash, which happened about 100m from the Bell Park CFA, involved a dark grey four-wheel drive Nissan Patrol and a smaller silver Toyota Corolla hatchback.
The front driver’s side of the Corolla was badly crushed in the accident, pinning the female driver in her seat.
The woman was trapped in her vehicle for some time while emergency workers tried to remove her.
It’s understood the woman, aged in her 50s or 60s, suffered a broken leg.
She and another patient were taken to the Geelong hospital, both in a stable condition.
Sergeant Mark Gray said police would examine footage from a traffic camera at the intersection to determine which driver was at fault.
“There was a female driver and a male passenger who has got some chest injuries,” he said.
“The female driver looks like she has got a broken leg.
“They’ve had to cut her out, stabilise her, and then put her in an ambulance and send her to hospital.
“We’ve still got to determine who was at t f fault lt but we’ve got a camera here so we might be able to get something out of it.”
Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman Bianca Villarosa confirmed paramedics were called to the crash about 11.10am.
“Paramedics treated two people, including one person for a leg injury,” Ms Villarosa said. “Both people were taken to Geelong hospital in a stable condition.
“No details on injuries of second person.”
A female passenger was killed and three other people taken to hospital after a fourvehicle smash in Thompson Rd last Thursday.
Last week’s tragedy was less than two months after an 88-year-old man also died from injuries suffered in a crash a few hundred metres away.