Motorist crashes into maintenance vehicle

Shortly after 2.30am on Wednesday last week, the driver of a Volkswagen Polo GTI was critically injured when he hit the back of a highway maintenance vehicle.

The collision occurred in the fast lane of the N3 before the Linksfield Road off-ramp.

Paramedics from Emer-G-Med responded to the scene and found the driver trapped in his vehicle.

It took over an hour to free the patient from the wreckage.

The driver sustained critical poly trauma injuries to the spine, neck, head and jaw, as well as bilateral compound femur fractures and a compound radius ulna fracture to the right wrist.

The patent was stabilised on scene before he was transported to Union Hospital for urgent medical treatment.