On Friday the 22nd of November, Harden 389 responded to a motor vehicle accident east of town. Upon arrival, the crew found a collision between a car and a truck.
The crew acted quickly, providing immediate assistance to the occupants and ensuring their safety. After securing the scene, the team began the necessary cleanup process to clear the area.
Wal Leonow, Station Commander, wanted to thank everybody that helped.
“A car was heading from Galong and a truck heading into town and the driver of the car didn’t know he had to give way and ploughed straight side-on into the fuel tank of the semi trailer at 100km/h.
“I don’t know how he wasn’t injured or killed. There was extensive damage to the car and quite a lot of damage to the truck.
“The truck couldn’t stop anywhere, so he went to the top of the hill spreading fuel for 500m or so.
“We were out there for quite a while with absorption material and sand. There was no run-off, it was all absorbed into the road.
“The Council came out and did traffic flow and then the car was removed but the truck was still there when we left.
“The crossroads are pretty safe now that they have widened them, compared to what it used to be, but the driver was oblivious to where he was and thought he had right of way and it didn’t work.
“The car was heading south from the Galong Road and gone straight across the intersection and the truck was heading in a westerly direction towards town and was loaded with grain going to the silos.
“The car just ploughed straight into it. Luckily he was in a vehicle that had a lot of safety features. I don’t think he was injured, but he was taken away by ambulance before we got there.
“The truck driver was pretty shaken up.
“We have extra flow with traffic with harvest trucks, there’s hundreds of trucks getting about now, everybody needs to be careful with trucks and oversized vehicles with headers and chaser bins being moved around now.
“The locals are pretty good, it’s mostly the out of towners that don’t know where they are and driving on a country road and don’t realise how much traffic with trucks and oversize vehicles are getting about at this time of the year. “People need to be aware until after Christmas or when the harvest is finished.
