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Richard and Mande Meyer assisted at the scene of a car accident in Hamilton. Mande ran, moon boot on, to free one of the drivers.
A witness to a traffic accident that was “like something out of the movies” has been left with cuts on her hands after trying to remove glass to free one of the drivers.
Mande Meyer, who was also wearing a moon boot at the time, said the adrenaline kick started after he saw the accident in Hamilton on Friday.
He ran toward a ute, one of three vehicles involved in the accident, hoping to find the driver alive.
“Actually, I wasn’t even supposed to walk, I had torn a tendon in my foot, but I got so scared that I jumped out of the car to help the man from the ute.
“My husband [Richard] I had to hold the window of the ute, because it had broken and was collapsing on top of the driver. “
The accident happened around 11:45 a.m. Friday, on Wairere Drive, a busy 80km / h dual-lane arterial route.
“My husband was in a car behind the truck that was involved in the accident, and I was two vehicles behind him.
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Police are using Mande Meyer’s dash cam video to help determine what caused the accident. (File photo)
“We saw a lady in a smaller car passing in front of us and she tried to move to the right, to the inside lane, in front of the truck.
“At the same time, the truck indicated to move left to the outside lane.
“The truck hit the back of the car. He turned 180 degrees and went through the [medium strip] center, toward oncoming traffic on the other side of the road. “
It was then that the car and a Ute collided, which was traveling in the opposite direction.
Meyer caught the accident on video from his dashcam, which was being reviewed by police.
“We think the driver was dead because there was no movement. But when I got to him, he asked me what happened, so I told him I had an accident. “
Meyer and her husband tended to the driver the best they could. Another passerby who was a nurse came to help until emergency services arrived.
“He said his name was Tim. He kept going in and out of consciousness, he had massive head injuries so we had to keep him talking and awake.
“We were able to use his phone to call his wife, so he could hear her voice too.”
The emergency services had to release the man from the ute.
“They had to remove the doors and the roof to get it out.”
Meyer said he saw that the driver of the car had a bloody nose and that the crash also shook him.
Waikato police confirmed that a vehicle passed over the barrier on Wairere Drive, but details of what happened before the accident are still being investigated.
The highway was closed in both directions after the accident and reopened around 1:30 p.m. Friday.
The Waikato District Board of Health had been contacted for an update on the condition of those involved in the accident.
