WARNING: Photos from accident scene
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A serious accident occurred at daybreak at Narooma involving a car drifting off the Princes Highway just north of Narooma High School.
The driver and single occupant was a local Narooma man in his 30s who suffered two broken legs and internal bleeding.
He was airlifted by the NSW Ambulance helicopter from the nearby high school oval.
Narooma police on the scene said the driver was travelling northbound some time before 6am when he left the roadway for unknown reasons, travelling down an embankment and hitting a tree.
Volunteers from the Narooma VRA rescue squad as well as from the Narooma and Dalmeny-Kianga RFS brigades attended.
Traffic was alternated on the Princes Highway until just after 8.30am when the vehicle wreck was towed away. Police investigations will continue why the Nissan X-Trail left the highway.
Narooma VRA training officer Mal Barry said it was a difficult extrication of the patient with the vehicle unbalanced and the doors required to be moved.
It’s been a busy couple of days and months for the Narooma VRA squad who on Wednesday attended the truck accident on Brown Mountain where the truck driver was stuck in his cab 25 metres down an embankment.
Mr Barry said the Narooma squad had attended more vehicle accidents and other rescues in the past two months than they had all last year, and were gaining a reputation as being the experts in getting injured people out of smashed vehicles and other tight spots.
Meanwhile another less serious accident took place at Canty Street, Narooma just after 5pm on Wednesday, involving a car rolling down onto the Princes Highway and colliding with another.
Witness Don Michael Ian Kocwin said the driver of the run-away car parked up in front of the shops on Canty Street.
“I don't know if the brakes failed or if they didn't put them on properly. First I saw I was walking from the NAB ATM and it rolled backwards down over sign and down the highway, straightening up and running into the other driver, who had stopped when he saw it coming.”