The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
MirACulous EsCApE from CrAsh
Woman walks 60 yards following crash which left car destroyed
A woman had a miraculous escape after walking away from a crash which left her car smashed to pieces - and even a tree uprooted. The crash happened on the A1 southbound at Alwalton at about 8.10pm on Monday night.
Thefemale driver wasable to scramble out and walk to a layby to receive first aid.
Emergency services were called to the scene, and even crews whoregularly deal with serious accidents were surprised by the woman’s lack of serious injuries after seeing the wreckage of the silver VW Polo.
A spokesman for the Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: “It is a mira- cle how the driver of this car walked away from this crash off the A1 at Alwalton last night after the vehicle left the roadway, collided with trees and even uprooted one tree!
“The casualty climbed out andwalked 60yards to a layby assisted bypassing motorists, and our firefighters gave her first aid until paramedics arrived.”
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: “We sent two crews to reports a car hadrolled into a ditch at 8.13pm.
“A woman in her late teens neededtreatmentformultiple cutsandbruisesandaheadinjury.
“She was taken to PeterboroughCityHospital in astable condition, but herinjuries are not thought to beserious.”
A Cambridgeshire police spokesman said one lane of the road was shut for a short period after the crash.