CFA fire brigade volunteers and ambulance paramedics work to free a trapped driver.EMERGENCY services were kept busy early on Friday with two serious crashes within an hour on busy Clyde Road.
Clyde and Cranbourne fire brigades and Langwarrin Rescue were called to a headon crash near the intersection with Thompsons Road about 6.20am.
Clyde Fire Brigade captain Ken Blencowe said rescuers found two people trapped in one car and the driver from the other vehicle lying on the road.
He said they had serious injuries with two people taken to hospital by air ambulance and one by road ambulance.
Just before 6.45am, a second crash occurred at the intersection of Clyde and Grices roads when a utility and a service van collided.
The utility careered off the road into a nearby paddock.
Berwick Fire Brigade captain Alan Boyd said the utility driver was trapped in the vehicle when emergency services arrived.
He said police, ambulance, CFA and State Emergency Service units used the jaws of life to cut the driver’s side open to free the driver.
The air ambulance took the driver to hospital.
