Pensioner cut free after crash

From the archive, first published Tuesday 10th Apr 2007.

AN elderly man had to be cut free from his car after a crash near Basildon fire station.

The man, thought to be in his 70s, crashed in Broadmayne, Basildon, and a passer-by, in her 30s, ran into the station to alert firefighters.

Crews from Basildon, Grays and Ingatestone cut the roof off his Peugeot 306.

Gary Critch, station officer, said: "It was a near head-on collision just a couple of hundred metres from our station."

Nigel Dilley, station commander, said: "A man was trapped in one of the vehicles.

"Paramedics were concerned he was suffering from a back injury.

"We quickly got to work cutting the roof off the car so that the man could be carefully removed on a spine board so as not to cause him any further harm."

The driver of the other car involved in the crash was unhurt.