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Published:
February 19, 2008
Injured
passenger cut free from car after
Highbridge accident
Fire
crews removed the roof of this badly damaged car to get to a passenger
inside following an unusual accident
in
the centre of Highbridge on Tuesday afternoon (February 19th).
 The
driver of the Mercedes lost control of the vehicle in the Somerfield
supermarket car park after the vehicle's accelerator pedal apparently
jammed, sending it into a metal recycling bin at speed.
Fire
crews from Burnham-On-Sea and Taunton were called to the scene
shortly before 1pm and quickly removed the roof of the vehicle
- as pictured here - to help free a female passenger in the car,
who was taken by ambulance to Musgrove Hospital in Taunton with
injuries that were not believed to be serious. The driver of the
vehicle, who was also a female, managed to escape without injury.
Melodie
Juste, spokeswoman for South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust,
told Burnham-On-Sea.com: "We were called at 12.55pm to help
two females in a vehicle that had crashed into a recycling bin.
One ambulance was sent to the scene and a woman was taken to Musgrove
with injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening or
serious."
Fire
crews removed the roof of the vehicle to get to the passengers
The
car was left in a badly damaged state after the accident
The
vehicle collided into a recycling bin after the driver lost control
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