Taxi crash into house leaves driver unconscious (Rooty Hill)
Updated at 5.pm
The driver was left unconscious and pinned inside his taxi which plunged through a brick wall and into a house at Rooty Hill, in Sydney’s west, this afternoon.
The NRMA CareFlight trauma team landed in a park shortly after emergency services were alerted to the incident at 3.04 pm.
Police met the doctor and duty ambulance paramedic on landing and drove them to the crash near the intersection of Rooty Hill Road and Sherbrooke Street.
The NRMA CareFlight doctor said the 44-year-old man, from Plumpton, was trapped in his taxi for almost an hour after it careered through a brick wall then into the side of the house.
An awning collapsed on the taxi, forcing its roof to collapse, which left the man unconscious with a head injury.
On his release by Fire Brigade officers the man was stabilised at the scene then taken by road ambulance, under continuing treatment by the NRMA CareFlight doctor, to Westmead Hospital.
The man remained in a serious but stable condition on arrival at the hospital just after 4 pm.
For further information please contact NRMA CareFlight director Ian Badham on 0418 245 748.
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