A group of people have lifted a car to free a woman who was trapped underneath after an accident in Newcastle on Friday.
Police said emergency services were called to the intersection of Perkins and Hunter streets about 2.20pm on Friday.
Officers were told that the car reversed into a parked vehicle before mounting a footpath, knocking over a woman and a baby, and crashing into a cafe.
Witnesses said the parked vehicle was a taxi.
Bennett Joy was among the first on the scene. He said he heard two loud bangs and then screams, before about seven people ran to help the woman and baby.
“Obviously the first bang was the car hitting the taxi and the second hitting the wall,” Mr Joy said.
“You couldn’t see [the mother] at all and the father was screaming, ‘That’s my baby, that’s my wife.’ ”
A man, presumed to be the woman’s partner, started to scream, “She’s under there.”
“Someone said get a [car] jack and someone else just said, ‘Let’s lift it,’ ” Mr Joy said.
“We all just got together and lifted it to get her out.
“They lifted it up like it was nothing,” Mr Joy said.
“It took them about 20 seconds to release her.”
source:smh.com.au
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