A woman and a baby were rushed to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary last night after two cars smashed on a busy city road, flipping one vehicle on its roof.
A woman in her 30s and her young child, thought to be aged about one, were treated following the crash at the junction between the Lang Stracht and Fernhill Drive in Aberdeen just before 5pm.
Fellow motorists rushed to their aid after the incident, which left the woman’s white Vauxhall Viva overturned and badly damaged.
The vehicle’s front was left in ruins after colliding with a silver BMW 520d taxi.
Glass was strewn across the junction between the two roads at the Fernhill Drive traffic lights, where the accident happened.
Police, fire and rescue and ambulance services scrambled to the scene of the collision, which caused congestion along the Lang Stracht during rush hour.
The woman and her child are believed to have been freed from the vehicle with the aid of police and paramedics by the time that firefighters arrived at the scene.
They were not said to be seriously injured.
Two fire teams from North Anderson Drive attended the incident and made the scene safe.
Officers were forced to direct traffic around the incident for more than an hour until the car was flipped upright by a recovery team and taken away.
Fluid was also seen leaking from the vehicle while it was being flipped back on its side.
Last night, an ambulance spokesman said: “We received an emergency call at 5pm this evening for a road traffic collision and we have taken a lady in her 30s and a young child to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
“Both were in a stable condition.”
One man, who lives in a property next to the junction said: “There was a woman and a baby in it, but I don’t know how a car could get on its roof like that at that spot.”
Another man, who lives on Fernhill Drive, added: “The people are all right. I never heard anything, I just saw it all after it happened.”
One local woman stated: “I went past just after it happened and thought: ‘I hope there are no children involved’. As long as nobody was hurt. Cars can be fixed, people can’t.”
A police spokesman confirmed: “We got the call at 4.55pm. There were no serious injuries. The council were called, because oil or vehicle fluid was spilling on to the road.”
