FIREFIGHTERS used specialist lifting gear to free a teenager who was pinned under a car yesterday following a head-on collision in Trinity.

The 16-year-old motorcyclist was trapped for around 20 minutes following the crash close to Freelance Garage on Trinity Hill at around 12.25 pm. Paramedics treated him as he was lying on the tarmac before taking him to hospital.
Richard D’Ulivo-Rogers, of the Ambulance Service, said that the motorcyclist suffered cuts and bruises but was not badly hurt.

It is understood that he was riding behind a car, which pulled out to overtake a line of parked lorries. The car was forced to stop because of an oncoming vehicle, but the moped rider overtook the car and careered straight into the front of the oncoming vehicle.

Marc Le Cornu, a station manager at the Fire and Rescue Service, said that six firefighters were at the scene.
‘When they first got up there, they were quite shocked by the scene that greeted them,’ he said. ‘We used a trolley jack to lift the car off the man involved. We managed to free him and assisted the paramedics to get him onto a stretcher and into the ambulance.’

• Picture: Firefighters and paramedics work to free the young motorcyclist from under the car after he collided with it head on