Five local people are lucky to be alive after two serious car crashes occurred within 15 minutes of each other last Thursday.
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Just five minutes after it started raining that day the CFA alarms were ringing.
The first crash, a single car accident, had occurred when an 18-year-old P-plate driver lost control on Old Thoona Rd, rolling her car.
The second crash, just outside Goorambat was much worse.
According to police, a 4WD heading north on the Benalla-Tocumwal Rd had been t-boned by a driver who failed to give way at the intersection of Sharpe Rd.
A 10-year-old girl was ejected from the 4WD, which her father was driving, and was pinned under it.
Both were injured, as was the 60-year-old driver of the car that hit them.
Miraculously, all three survived.
Benalla Police released the following statement:
‘‘The father and daughter were travelling north on the Benalla-Tocumwal Rd around 3pm when a car failed to give way at the junction of Sharp Rd colliding with the driver’s side of their 4WD, which was travelling at 100km/h,’’ the statement read.
‘‘A 10-year-old girl was airlifted to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
‘‘The girl’s father and a 60-year-old woman are being treated at Wangaratta Hospital.
‘‘The 10 year-old girl is being treated for multiple fractures, bad lacerations and associated injuries.
‘‘Her father is being treated for head injuries and the driver of the other car is being treated for multiple fractures.’’
Benalla Highway Patrol is asking any witnesses to this crash to phone Leading Senior Constable Larry Piscioneri on (03)57600200.
The other crash did not lead to anyone being hospitalised, which police said was down to the car’s airbags deploying.
With this crash potentially having more to do with weather conditions than the other, police also asked people to drive to the conditions and limit possible distractions whenever behind the wheel.
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