Head-on smash injures three

By Mara Pattison-Sowden
THREE people were taken to hospital after a head-on collision in Wandin North last week.
Yarra Ranges Highway Patrol attended the collision where a 62-year-old Woori Yallock woman driving city-bound along Warburton Highway crossed into the path of an oncoming car.
Leading Senior Constable Graeme Rust said the car had moved onto a gravel shoulder to avoid a car turning right, in the vicinity of Henderson Road, and had then lost control and crossed onto the wrong side of the road where the two cars collided.
Ambulance Victoria paramedic Peter Godwin said paramedics arrived to find one woman trapped in her car and two others injured.
“The CFA and SES were able to cut the woman free within 15 minutes,” he said.
“We placed a splint on her right arm and fitted her with a neck brace.”
She was flown to The Alfred hospital in a stable condition.
The occupants of the other car, a 65-year-old male and a 77-year-old female from Wandin North, suffered cuts and grazes and were taken to Maroondah Hospital in a stable condition.
The collision occurred just after 3.30pm on Monday 31 October.