Vic: Teenager critical after head-on collision

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2010
Vic: Teenager critical after head-on collision

A teenager is in a critical condition following a head-on collision in Melbourne's
northwest on Thursday.

Police say the 19-year-old was seated in the front passenger side of a red Nissan sedan
travelling west on Main Road West .. St Albans .. when it collided with a white Ford about
10.20pm (AEDT).

The youth was trapped and had to be cut free from the wreckage before he was taken
to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with head and chest injuries.

The driver of the Nissan .. an 18-year-old Hampton Park man .. was also taken to hospital
with back injuries.

Two other teenaged passengers escaped serious injury.

The driver and sole occupant of the Ford .. a 23-year-old St Albans woman .. was taken
to The Alfred hospital with bruising and chest injuries.

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KEYWORD: CRASH (MELBOURNE)

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