A bad end to Easter Sunday

By Maddy Shellabear

 

On Easter Sunday, the 24^th of April, two cars were involved in an almost head on collision on Osmington Road in Margaret River.  This reads like a feature story not a news story!

At approximately 6:30pm, four teenagers were travelling along Osmington road on the way back to their farm where they were staying, when an on coming car hit them.

“It was dusk so I had the headlights on when I saw this car heading towards us at a very fast speed, so I automatically slowed down and veered off the side of the road, but the car came straight for us going at about 90km an hour and hit us,” said George who was the driver of a Jeep carrying the four teenagers.

“I got straight out of the car to check on the passengers in my car who were all ok, so then I went over to check the people in the other car and they were in much worse condition”.

The police say if it had not been for George slowing down and veering off the road, it could have been a head on collision, which could have meant serious injury for both parties and possibly fatality.

“It a miracle the teenagers didn’t suffer any injuries worse than whiplash,” said one of the policeman on the scene.

“The passengers in the Toyota corolla that hit the teenagers weren’t so lucky, but that is because none of them were wearing seatbelts, I think had they been wearing them it would have been a much better outcome.”

Chris Shellabear, the father of one of the teenagers, was at the scene moments after the crash happened and began assessing the patients and their injuries.

“The injuries in the other car were very severe

“There was a broken leg, a broken arm, a broken pelvis and they were all very frightened,” he said.

“Its just so lucky that our kids were ok because they were hit with such a force and the corolla came all the way over to the other side of the road so it was clear who was at fault.”

Mr Shellabear said it took approximately half an hour for the police and ambulance to arrive and they took the injured patients to the Busselton hospital where they were treated accordingly.

The driver of the corolla has been charged with reckless driving and the passengers in the car have all been charged for not wearing seatbelts.