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A NUMBER of drivers have narrowly dodged death in recent days, after large gum trees uprooted and crushed their moving vehicles in two separate incidents at Glenrowan and Killawarra on Sunday and Monday respectively. Emergency service crews were first called to Taminick
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Gap Road near Glenrowan around 3pm on Sunday afternoon, when a large gum toppled onto the roof of a transit van, smashing the
car’s front windscreen and crushing the vehicle’s roof. A second incident on Monday afternoon saw at least five emergency vehicles and an SES road crash rescue helicopter attend WangarattaYarrawonga Road near Killawarra, when a motorist was successfully rescued from a similarly crushed vehicle.
Both motorists sustained only minor injuries. Wangaratta SES unit controller Jess Zuber said local crews had received 31 callouts since Tuesday last week, 29 of which were in response to downed trees. “Obviously Mother Nature threw some very isolated storms and gusty winds
at us, and we saw a large number of trees fall down, particularly on Sunday and Monday,” she said. “We’ve gone probably six weeks straight of flooding into wind and storm risk - we warn drivers of the risks of driving in these conditions, the ground is still quite wet and we’re
seeing whole trees uproot - that’s causing most of our concerns.” Winds at Wangaratta Aerodrome’s automatic weather station reached 69kph on Monday, after 59kph winds toppled at least 11 trees across roads the day previous. ■ Continued page 2
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