A seriously injured teenager is clinging to life after a car plunged down an embankment and crashed into an underground hospital car park.
Emergency services responded to reports that a car had veered off the road into a car park and crashed into a generator at Kingsway in Caringbah in Sydney’s south about 12.15pm on Sunday.
It took emergency services at least an hour to free the teenager, who was too young to drive alone, from the wreck.
“The driver – a 16-year-old male – was extricated from the vehicle by Fire and Rescue NSW before being treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics and taken to St George Hospital in a critical condition,” a police spokesperson said.
Sutherland Police established a crime scene, which specialist officers examined on Sunday.
The car reportedly became airborne before falling 30 feet off the road and crashing into a generator at the Kareena Private Hospital parking lot.
Police said speed was likely a factor in the crash, but added that the car was not stolen.
CCTV footage from a nearby petrol station showed a Mazda sedan driving down the street at high speed just after midnight on Sunday.
Footage showed the car being destroyed after it fell 10 meters from an embankment to a parking lot
A hospital’s generator was severely damaged in the accident and a boy is in critical condition
The car was caught trying to make a turn before veering off the road.
Witness Tarek Ouwaidat saw the car “moving so fast” before it crashed and rushed to the teenager’s aid.
“I jumped in the car and tried to talk to him,” he said Nine news.
‘He’s still alive, but he can’t talk. He’s unconscious, but I can hear him, he’s breathing.’
Paramedics worked for an hour to free the boy from the mangled Mazda.
CCTV footage from a petrol station in Sydney’s south showed the car speeding down the road
“You could hear a car rolling, going on its roof, on its wheels and on its roof, and as I passed by I couldn’t see it,” said another witness.
A local mother said she was devastated by the news as she feared another mother was about to receive a tragic phone call.
The tire marker led to the accident site and left a trail almost 100 meters long.
The teenager was still in critical condition on Sunday evening.
Anyone with information, CCTV footage or dashcam is urged to call Crime Stoppers.