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An elderly couple escaped serious injury when their car ploughed through a shop front in South Morang this afternoon.
Advanced life support paramedics from Research, intensive care paramedics from Bundoora, a paramedic team manager and a paramedic group manager were called to the corner of George and Plenty Roads at 3.25pm.
Team manager Alicia Doreian said they arrived within nine minutes to a chaotic scene.
‘It appeared that a car had crossed six lanes, a nature strip and footpath, narrowly missing a power pole, before crashing into the window of the building’ she said.
‘The car was nose down inside the shop with the back of the car raised about one and a half metres in the air.
‘A woman aged in her 70s was trapped in the car and suffering chest and abdominal injuries and deep cuts to her leg.
‘Her blood pressure was very low so we put a drip in her arm and she was given pain relief and fluids to help stabilise her condition.
‘The CFA cut the doors off the car and we removed her on a spine board to reduce movement.
‘She was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
‘Bystanders assisted the man, also aged in his 70s, from the car prior to our arrival.
‘He was suffering a blood nose and was taken to the Northern Hospital in a stable condition,’ Ms Doreian said.
ENDS.