MAN SERIOUSLY HURT IN CAR SMASH
HIGH SPEED CRASH OUTSIDE HOME SENDS THEIR VEHICLE FLYING DOWN STREET
A man has been seriously injured after a car smashed into a garden after colliding with another vehicle in Mount Road, Gorton.
A FAMILY has described the terrifying moment they were woken by a car smashing outside their house - sending their own family car flying down the street.
Teenager Magda Trajdos, 13, was woken by the sound of the silver Audi A3 crashing into her parent’s car, a Citroen, parked outside their home on Mount Road in Gorton.
The impact of the collision caused the Citroen to slam into a garden wall and gate in the opposite house.
The Audi then struck a lamppost, leaving the driver trapped inside the vehicle.
Emergency services were called to the scene yesterday morning and fire crews removed a door to release the driver, a man, in his 20s, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Magda, 13, and her father Jarowslaw, looked out of their window and saw the family car in a neighbours garden.
The teenager said: “A car had crashed into a lamppost and our car was on the other side of the road in someone’s garden.
“We called the ambulance and the police. The back of the window has gone, it has been just pushed all inside and there are scratches and everything.
“A neighbour with a baby was driving a few minutes before. He narrowly missed him.
“If he didn’t come out on time he would have crashed into him.”
Jean Marsden, 72, who lives in the house with husband Edwin which suffered the damaged wall, said she woke up to see Mount Road taped off by police. She said: “We had a car pushed into our front garden, it had taken down a wall and a garden
gate. “The lamppost was completely severed into two, it didn’t look nice. “The wall has been taken down quite a lot and bricks are scattered all over the place, the gate as well - it took it off in one. “It damaged a few plants. If the wall wasn’t there who knows what had happened.” Police closed Mount Road in both directions, between Stanley Grove and Sandringham Street, while an investigation took place. The road reopened later, with traffic starting to return to normal shortly afterwards. Jean Marsden