Three lucky people escape with minor injuries after car flips on Burwood

CFA had Ferntree Gully and Upper Ferntree Gully in attendance. (File:141894_03).

By Tanya Steele

Minor injuries were the result after a car flipped onto its roof along Burwood Highway over the weekend.

A two car accident has left the lucky occupants alive after one car flipped and landed upside down on the road on Saturday night in Ferntree Gully.

CFA was called to a vehicle accident with a possible person trapped on Burwood Highway at Ferntree Gully on Saturday 17 August just after 6pm, they had three trucks on the scene that evening from Ferntree Gully and Upper Ferntree Gully.

A spokesperson from CFA media said that firefighters confirmed no one was trapped when they arrived on scene.

“The incident involved two vehicles, one found on its roof and three patients were handed to Ambulance Victoria,” they said.

A spokesperson from Ambulance Victoria said that paramedics were called to the collision in Ferntree Gully around 6:10pm.

“Two men in their 20s and a woman in her 20s, all with minor injuries, were transported by road ambulance to Maroondah Hospital in stable conditions,” they said,

The situation was brought under control by CFA at 6.17pm and declared safe at 6.27pm.