CFA fire officers work to free a trapped driver and passenger after a head-on collision in Springvale last week. Picture courtesy Keith Pakenham, CFA.AN army of emergency services workers freed two trapped men involved in a head-on car crash in Springvale last Sunday.
Fire officers described the extrication as one of the most involved they had attended.
A transit van and four-wheel-drive collided head-on along Centre Road, Springvale, at 3.50am on Sunday.
Springvale Country Fire Authority (CFA), a neighbouring Metropolitan Fire Brigade unit, Dandenong CFA Rescue and Rescue Support units, and multiple police and ambulance units were called to the scene.
Two men, the driver and passenger in the transit van, suffered multiple leg breaks.
Springvale fire officer Jason Lawrence said firefighters used all hydraulic equipment available to them to delicately extract the men over an hour.
The male driver of the four-wheel-drive and the two occupants of the van were taken to The Alfred hospital.
The condition of all three was described as non-life threatening. conditions.“Given the circumstances it was not a straightforward extrication, but the men were lucky it didn’t take longer because of the severity of the impact,” he said.
CFA photographer Keith Pakenham said freeing the trapped men was one of the most extensive operations he had seen in recent times.
