Teenagers injured in separate crashes

By Paul Dunlop
A TEENAGER was taken to hospital after a car ran off the Princes Highway and rolled into trees just outside Pakenham on Sunday.
The injured young man, from Newborough, was a passenger in the car driven by an 18yearold Moe man.
The passenger was taken to Casey hospital, but police said his injuries were not life threatening. The driver was not injured.
Investigations are continuing into what caused the car to leave the highway and come spectacularly to rest upside down in bushland between the east and westbound lanes.
The rollover was one of two crashes in the space of an hour for Pakenham rescue crews.
Emergency service workers also attended a twocar collision at the intersection of O’Shannessy Street and the Princes Highway.
The crash happened about 10am.
Police, paramedics and CFA units from Pakenham and Toomuc joined Pakenham State Emergency Service volunteers at both incidents.
Traffic in the area was slowed for about half an hour while emergency service workers cleared the crash scenes.
Meanwhile, a teenager had to be cut free from the wreckage of a car that rolled off a road at Avonsleigh on Friday.
The 17yearold from Ringwood was a passenger in a car travelling northeast when it lost control near the intersection of Margaret Road and Phillip Road.
Police said the driver, an 18yearold man also from Ringwood, was not injured.
Emergency service workers freed the passenger who was taken to Dandenong hospital with nonlife threatening injuries, police said.
Police are investigating the incident.