Cade Lucas
Wyndham drivers are being urged to take extra care after another crash over the weekend.
Rescue crews freed an injured driver from a white Fiat van that crashed on the Werribee Street Bridge at about 3.16am on Sunday, June 4.
Bystanders who witnessed the crash said the van was approaching from Cotterell Street when it veered into a railing at the bridge entrance and crashed through wooden bollards on the footpath before stopping.
The driver was treated at the scene by paramedics before being transported to hospital by ambulance.
Police are still investigating the cause of the accident which involved no other vehicles.
Werribee Fire Brigade spokesman and longtime firefighter Daryl Wells said their rescue crews are now attending more car accidents than fires.
“In a recent 48 hour period, 15 calls were responded to by brigade members, 11 of those calls were to motor car accidents, two of those required the road crash rescue crew to cut free seriously injured patients.”
He pleaded with Wyndham drivers to show greater care, particularly when driving locally.
“It is not the freeways and highways where the accidents happen, it is the local streets and roads where more people are injured and die.
So please take care and drive with your lights on and remember to pull to the left of the street/road if you hear a siren to give emergency vehicles a safe passage,” Mr Wells said.
