A woman driver, in her 20s, was cut from her car after her arm and leg were broken during a collision involving another vehicle near Carterton on Wednesday.
A woman driver, in her 20s, was cut from her car after her arm and leg were broken during a collision involving another vehicle near Carterton on Wednesday.
A young woman driver had to be cut from her car after her arm and leg were broken during a road crash involving another vehicle at Parkvale near Carterton.
Carterton fire chief Wayne Robinson said the woman, in her 20s, was the sole occupant in a car that was incollision with another sole-occupant vehicle at the corner of Morton Rd and Carters Line late on Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters used hydraulic gear to remove the side and roof of the woman's vehicle, he said, and had freed her from the wreckage using a backboard.
The woman had received a broken leg and arm among other injuries and was taken to Wairarapa Hospital.
Mr Robinson said the driver of the other car, a man in his late 50s, was also assessed for injuries. Two fire crews from Carterton and a crew from Greytown had attended the crash scene along with an ambulance crew and police.
About an hour later, Carterton firefighters were scrambled to a Belvedere Rd property, where high winds had blown sparks from a controlled burn-off that ignited nearby pine trees.
He said the Carterton water tanker had also been sent to the scene and the blaze was doused within half an hour.
