Emilie Rose and Aimiee Adams

Driver Emilie Rose 18 from Newport and her female passenger Aimee Adams 19 from Freshwater had lucky escape after they swerved to avoid an animal on the road believed to be a rabbit.

Emergency services rushed to the scene just after 7pm this evening (Saturday May 29) after reports that Emilie’s red ford Ka car she was driving was on its side with the pair still trapped on the Middle Road near Calbourne.

Fire crews from Newport and the rescue tender were called to the Calbourne Road near to the watermill to free the pair from the vehicle.

Police closed the road and set up diversions whilst fire crews assisted the pair from the vehicle and made the area safe by righting the car.

The teenage girls who escaped with minor injuries were hanging upside down in the vehicle trapped by their seatbelts and the driver’s foot under the clutch before fire crews freed them.

Speaking to the gazette after the incident passenger Aimee Adams said “ She was unbelievable lucky to walk away with minor bruising. She describes how her friend Emilie had swerved after seeing the rabbit in the road.

She went on to say the vehicle span around hitting a tree and the verge before it rolled on to it side. The next thing I knew I was hanging upside down in the vehicle and could get out of because of the seatbelt. My friend Emilie had her foot trapped under clutch pedal. It was all very scary. The fireman got here really quite and they were brilliant freeing us she added.

Emilie Crashed Car

Crew manager Dave Grundy said” The two females were very lucky and the fact that they were wearing there seat belts saved them from serious injury. Crews assisted the girls from the vehicle and they where checked over by paramedics at the scene.”