News Story
Members attended two serious motor vehicle accidents at the same time this morning and although each resulted in multiple people receiving injuries, some life-threatening, there was great contrast between the two events. The first was a single-car accident on a 100kph stretch of busy State Highway 16, north of the rural centre of Kumeu. Seriously injured patients were evacuated by helicopter. The second occurred within the park-like grounds of Purewa Cemetery, in the inner Auckland suburb of St Johns. This was a two-car head-on crash on the 30kph tranquil, tree-lined, road leading to and from the chapel and St Johns Road. Both vehicles were extensively damaged: one victim was cut from the wreckage by firefighters. At both incidents our members assisted with traffic management.
