Car crashes into hay stack at Panmure | Warrnambool Standard March 2025 - video Dailymotion

A middle-age male driver was lucky to avoid serious injury after a single-car crash on the Princes Highway. Reporter Andrew Thomson at the scene.

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00:00Here we are at the scene of an accident this morning. Single vehicle again.

00:05This one seems to be heading east. Utility was heading east on the Princess Highway at Pamua.

00:11He's just missed the distance signs and he's come off the road.

00:16Seems to have overcorrected from the left to the right, gone across the road.

00:21He's then proceeded down alongside the road

00:28and gone into, crashed into a heap of hay bales.

00:35Initial reports are that he may have been asleep at the wheel, but dead set lucky.

00:41Emergency services blokes here are sick of coming to accidents. People, please slow down.

00:46Here we are at the accident scene at Pamua. There's another single vehicle accident.

00:51We have Acting Sergeant Pete Hunter and one of the CFA boys from Pamua.

00:55Pete, have you got a message for us?

00:57We need people to slow down. We're having far too many collisions, dry weather, daylight hours

01:05and we just need people to slow down, take care and take appropriate action in the conditions.

01:11And Captain Kilvington, what have you got to say, lad?

01:13Make sure that you take appropriate rest breaks and make sure you're not tired when you're driving.

01:18Thanks for the messages, boys.