2LT Local News

Great Western Highway collision at Hartley injures 4

Oct 21, 2018

LITHGOW, Central West, NSW, Australia  – Two people have been airlifted to hospital after a two-car crash west of the Blue Mountains. 

Emergency services, including two NSW ambulance rescue helicopters, were called to the Great Western Highway at Hartley, in the City of Lithgow, following reports of a crash. 

Emergency services arrived to find two vehicles involved. Two occupants of one of the vehicles were suffering serious injuries. 

Ambulance paramedics worked to stabilise a 77-year-old man and woman and were assisted by the specialist doctors and critical care paramedics who landed on the roadway nearby to the crash site. 

The man and woman were further assessed and stabilised on the scene before they were airlifted to Westmead and Liverpool Hospitals. The occupant of the second vehicle was transported to Lithgow Hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries. 

Hartley is in the Greater City of Lithgow Local Government Area, on the border of the City of Blue Mountains.

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