Man escapes "flattened" car wreckage
Published 4 Mar 2011 12:37
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A MAN had a lucky escape early this morning when his car rolled over several times after he swerved to avoid an animal.
Firefighters from Whitley Wood were called at 2.30am after the Vauxhall Vectra left the A329M between Winnersh and Thames Valley Business Park.
The driver was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital but fire crew manager James Blake, who described the car as "absolutely flattened", said: "He was very lucky that he managed to crawl out of the car - it was a nasty accident."
Earlier, Whitley Wood firefighters joined their colleagues from the Wokingham Road station to cut a man free from the wreckage of his blue Citroen Xaio after it collided with a silver Vauxhall Astra on the A33 Relief Road, near the Imperial Way junction in south Reading.
The crew arrived on the scene at 10.10pm to find the Citroen driver trapped and they had to cut the roof off the car so that paramedics could get him out strapped to a stretcher because he had suffered a serious back injury.
This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 04 Mar 11
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