A 61-year-old Pretoria man was critically injured and airlifted to a Johannesburg trauma hospital after a classic car he was working on crushed him against a retaining wall in a freak accident at Silver Lakes Golf Estate in the east of Pretoria.

Pretoria Rekord reports that Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit (Vemru) spokesperson Casper Visser said the incident happened just after 13:00 yesterday (May 27).

“We received a call for a person who got seriously injured after the classic car that he was working on crushed him against a retaining wall and ripped the driver’s door off in a freak accident.”

On arrival they found that the patient sustained critical injuries to his head, chest, abdomen and left arm.

Visser said due to the extent of the patient’s injuries, the decision was made to airlift the patient to a specialist trauma hospital in Johannesburg via Netcare911 aeromedical helicopter.

He said the man was stabilised by their members and an emergency care practitioner from Emer-G-Med before being transported by the aeromedical crew.

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