A DELIVERY driver is “lucky to be alive” after sustaining two broken legs when the van he was driving collided with a tree in Enniskillen in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Firefighters spent over an hour cutting the driver free from the vehicle as it lay on its side on the Tempo Road, near Leonard’s Filling Station at Garvary.
It’s understood the driver, who is in his early 30s, was heavily trapped from the waist down following the crash at around 12.21am.
“A man was trapped in the vehicle and was removed by firefighters using hydraulic cutting equipment,” a spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue told this newspaper.
One eyewitness observed how the roof of the van had to be partly removed as firefighters from Enniskillen and Irvinestown worked to release the man who was later transferred to South West Acute Hospital by ambulance and then onto Altnagelvin Area Hospital. After sustaining broken bones and bruising he is “very lucky to be alive”, said a source.
A spokeswoman for the company where the driver is employed said they are “forever grateful” to the three people who stopped at the scene of the crash to attend to their injured colleague and kept them up to date.
And they said their thoughts were very much with their driver following the crash.
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