Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Great Ocean Road Crash

As some of you might know, we went to Cape Otway National Park near Lorne on Easter Monday for some photography outings. Now that's not the point for this post (will post photos later).

While on our way back towards Melbourne, we saw an ambulance rushing its way towards the west directions followed by an SES truck not too far behind. Initially, we thought someone has drown or a shark attack.

As I was reading through the news today, guess what I saw...

A PASSER-BY who tried in vain to save a woman from a fatal crash on the Great Ocean Road has spoken of the horror and frustration at being unable to get a mobile phone signal to call emergency services.

Student Mohit Virmani was forced to drive 2km to a nearby farm to raise the alarm after coming across the fatal accident near Apollo Bay on Saturday afternoon.

"It was really horrifying," he said. "It was frantic, everyone was trying to get a signal to call for help, but there was no mobile network in the area."

A woman died and two other people were taken to hospital after their Toyota sedan lost control on the popular tourist route and slammed into a tree.

Mr Virmani, who was driving back to Melbourne with a group of friends after a trip to the Twelve Apostles, was one of several motorists to discover the car shortly after the accident.

Eventually Mr Virmani and Mr Lobo and other passers-by managed to remove the woman from the backseat and a fellow motorist performed CPR until the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later.

The woman, in her 30s, died at the scene. The woman in the front seat was flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition and the male driver was taken to Geelong Hospital.

A spokesman for the Major Collision Investigation Unity refused to comment on speculation that long skid marks at the scene of the crash suggested the victims had swerve to avoid collision with an overtaking vehicle. More

Oh gosh! It was that deadly accident that claimed lives! We were just less than 30km away that time! Luckily we didn't end up going to Apollo Bay as the guys in the Information centre told us the waterfalls there are pretty much dried up too. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here now.

We pray for the victims and their families. Such tragic end to Easter......Sigh.....

The reason for the accident: Overtaking!

Bloody idiot! Great Ocean Road is known for its' winding roads and what's an extra 30 minutes behind a slower car would do to you?! @$$!!

On another news today:
POLICE say they're shocked at the number of drivers nabbed over the Easter, catching more than 600 drink-driving and nearly 5000 speeding.
In the only fatality for the Easter holiday season, a woman in her thirties died in the Horden Vale crash, just west of the Cape Otway National Park, near Apollo Bay on Saturday, after the car veered off the Great Ocean Rd.
Crap~!!~!~!~!~

3 comments:

berryli said...

the incident happened on easter sat, we were there on Mon. The SES and ambulance that we saw must be heading towards a different accident/incident?

HBK said...

Ya hor...then we nearly went to a site that someone died...:S

HBK said...

it's a Malaysian who died...

A Malaysian student was killed on Saturday when a car in which she was travelling skidded and hit a tree in Apollo Bay, about 190km from here.

Sharon Chua Sook Teng, 35, a MBA student at the RMIT University here, died on the spot.
"It appears that a Toyota sedan lost control on the Great Ocean Road and hit a tree about 10km west of Apollo Bay just after 4.30pm," a police spokeswoman told Bernama.