By Tanya Steele
A pair of young drivers escaped serious injury on Saturday 8 July when their car turned over on Station Street in Coldstream.
Emergency personnel were also left with some surprise avian occupants found in the rear of their vehicle.
The accident scene was attended at approximately 8.30am and Captain Sean Bethell of CFA said the single car rollover meant that the car occupants had to evacuate their turned over vehicle.
“They scrambled themselves out with relatively minor injuries,” he said.
A spokesperson from Ambulance Victoria confirmed that paramedics were called to an accident in Coldstream.
“A woman believed to be in her 40’s and a woman believed to be in her 30’s were taken to Maroondah Hospital, both with minor injuries in stable condition,” they said.
Mr Bethell said when the tow trucks brought the car back up onto the roadway and rolled it back onto its wheels, two chickens flew out the window.
“There was egg mess all over the car, two chickens absconded and the final count was 20 chickens,” he said.
“Unfortunately, four of the birds had perished in the accident.”
Leading Senior Constable Barry Roberts confirmed the rollover and said a silver Toyota sedan had left the road after rounding a corner and flipping into a ditch after it rode up a power pole tensioning wire.
“When emergency services and the towing company started to extract the car from the ditch, they noticed a brown hen pecking around in the mud at the rear of the car,” he said.
Lsc Roberts said that as the car was moved another chicken popped out the back window.
“The car itself also had mass amounts of broken eggs inside, which had made a large mess,” he said.
CFA and Police on the ground were challenged by a Sunday morning chook chase to capture and contain the chickens from the vehicle.
Police transported the remaining flock to the local Animal Aid in Coldstream for further assessment and veterinary care.
