AAP General News (Australia)
12-06-2011
VIC:Semi pushes car 100m on Melb freeway
MELBOURNE, Dec 6 AAP - A woman has escaped with little more than a knee scrape after
her car was rammed sideways by a semi-trailer for 100 metres along a busy Melbourne freeway
during morning peak hour.
The semi-trailer shunted the woman's car from behind on the Monash Freeway, knocking
it sideways with the driver's side forced against the truck's bullbar.
The car was pushed more than 100 metres along the freeway as the truck driver applied the brakes.
Paramedics said the 56-year-old woman was incredibly lucky to walk away from the collision,
which occurred at Mount Waverley in Melbourne's southeast just before 8am (AEDT) on Tuesday.
"She was extremely shaken by what happened, which is understandable, but remarkably
she came out with just a graze to her knee," paramedic Alex Currie said.
"Her biggest fear, she said, being dragged by the truck, just one little movement and
she would've been pushed in front of oncoming traffic and who knows what would have happened."
She was taken to Box Hill Hospital in a stable condition.
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KEYWORD: TRUCK
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