NSW Ambulance update on Hunter bus crash

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00:00So at approximately 10.30 a.m. this morning, New South Wales, along with peer emergency services,

00:06report to a minibus rollover in the Mountain View area with reports of multiple critically unwell patients.

00:12We have six people that were passengers on the bus.

00:15Unfortunately, at this stage we have two of those passengers that are critically unwell and four passengers that are stable.

00:23And they were transported to hospital at this stage?

00:25That's correct. So two critically unwell patients were transported by helicopter to John Hunter Hospital

00:30and four other patients were transported by road to John Hunter.

00:33One of our critically unwell patients was a 60-year-old male suffering head injuries

00:38and our other critically unwell patient was a 50-year-old male suffering limb injuries.

00:43So it was a really difficult scene. The vehicle rolled approximately seven times, about 150 metres down in New Bankland.

00:51It took a multi-agency and really coordinated response to gain access to the vehicle.

00:56And it took approximately 45 minutes to then cut one of the patients out of the new bus.

01:02So sadly, it was a group of individuals on the way to a week.

01:07And it does, unfortunately, resemble some similarities with a group of bus crash.

01:13And we're looking after all of our colleagues and all of our members of the community involved.

01:18Yes.