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‘Very harrowing scenes’: Two are killed in car crash horror, but three children are cut free and pulled from the wreckage alive as disaster strikes again on the roads
- Disturbing crash on two-lane outback highway shocked emergency services
- A man and a woman were killed in the crash, 47 miles from Dubbo, NSW
- Specialized crews were needed to retrieve three children from the wreckage
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A man and woman were killed in a horrific two-car accident on a back road near Dubbo, but three young children were recovered alive from the wreckage of one of the vehicles.
Around 4 p.m. Friday, emergency services responded to a call to Goolma Road, 77 kilometers east of the Dubbo regional center in central western NSW.
Emergency services arrived on the scene to find the wreckage of two vehicles that had collided.
A 29-year-old man driving a Ford Falcon ute and a 63-year-old female passenger in a Toyota Landcruiser Prado were pronounced dead at the scene.
Emergency services, firefighters and rescue specialists then teamed up to retrieve an adult man, woman and three young children from the broken-down Toyota.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Craig Hall said it was a ‘very disturbing scene’.
Survivors were treated by paramedics next to the wreckage before the three children were flown to Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney.
A woman in her 20s was taken to Mudgee Hospital with abdominal pain.
Two have died and five others have been seriously injured in a car accident in the countryside, three children were flown to hospital from next to the wreckage on Goolma Road (pictured)
“Paramedics called for blood supplies to be sent from Mudgee Hospital and we had four rescue helicopters on the scene,” Inspector Hall said. ABC.
‘Incidents like this are always confrontational, but especially when children are involved.’
NSW Ambulance Inspector Craig Hall said it was a ‘very distressing scene’ and it took four helicopters to take the survivors to hospital
Police said their investigators are still trying to understand the nature of the accident on the two-lane regional highway.
Orana Mid-Western Police District officers have established a crime scene, which will be investigated by specialized officers from the Crash Investigation Unit, police said.
“The circumstances of the crash are being investigated.”
The extensive rescue effort involved crews from Fire and Rescue NSW and the VRA.
Traffic between Wellington and Gulgong, located at each end of the Goolma Highway, was diverted to other local highways.