Paramedics battled to find all the injured after a car carrying eight people and with a learner driver at the wheel hit a pole in a smash Melbourne police have labelled "sheer stupidity".
Ambulance officers found two people ejected from the vehicle and, eventually, two more who just "sort of walked up towards them," paramedic Phillip Campbell said.
Police said it was a miracle all the young people, aged between 18 and 25, emerged alive from the car.
Eight ambulances attended the chaotic scene after the Mitsubishi Lancer coupe veered off the Princes Highway at Clayton and jumped a wide median strip before smashing into the pole, about 12.40am (AEDT) Wednesday. (In one of the earlier version of this story, it was mentioned that the people involved are Sudanese, why did not this appear in this version. SAY IT HOW IT IS !! )
While police at the scene branded the act of stuffing eight people into a two-door car "sheer stupidity", Victoria Police Commissioner Christine Nixon said the six men and two women were not breaking the law as long as all the seat belts were being used.
"The driver could be charged with careless driving or a range of other things, but just simply if they were driving along and had that many people in the car, it isn't an offence and that's the law," she told Fairfax Radio.
A policewoman was recruited to drive an ambulance to hospital while ambulance officers worked to save the life of the young female learner driver.
The injured were taken to four different hospitals, with three in a critical condition.
Police said the driver took the full impact of the smash when the car slammed into a pole, blacking out the area.
Sergeant Brad Peters, of the Major Collision Investigation Unit, said he was dumbfounded that eight people would cram into such a small car.
"It is just such sheer stupidity and we're very lucky that at this stage no one's died," Sgt Peters told reporters at the scene.
On Tuesday the Transport Accident Commission and Premier John Brumby launched the latest ads aimed at young drivers.
"It is hugely disappointing given the resources that the Victoria Police and the state government throw at road safety and reduction of road trauma," Sgt Peters said.
One resident, John Delnigro, who rushed to help said he pulled one passenger out and checked his pulse while others in the back seat called for help.
"It was pretty chaotic - two bodies were already thrown out of the vehicle and others were trapped," he said.
"I pulled one out and checked his pulse while others were screaming in the back of the car to pull them out.
"When the first paramedics arrived at the scene, all the power had been lost to the area so there was no light so they had great difficulty in just seeing the extent of the damage, and also finding patients was quite difficult."
ninemsn 17:58 29 Oct 2008
Again nothing more nothing less that PURE TRAILER PARK TRASH !!!
The government will take x-ray naked photos of you at the airport, BUT this still does NOT KEEP the TRASH OUT !!!
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