Vehicles ‘trapped’ after colliding with scaffolding in Hindhead

Hindhead Surrey  Thursday 21st April 201 left at least two vehicles  are left trapped under scaffolding. There was a fear the scaffolding could collapse if the vehicles were moved. Police, ambulance crews and a number of fire crews rushed to the accident on the A287 Hindhead Road. [photoshelter-gallery g_id=”G0000uyycpGuWkpo” g_name=”Hindhead-RTC” width=”800″ f_fullscreen=”t” bgtrans=”t” pho_credit=”iptc” twoup=”f” f_bbar=”t” f_bbarbig=”f” fsvis=”f” f_show_caption=”t” crop=”f” f_enable_embed_btn=”t” f_htmllinks=”t” f_l=”t” f_send_to_friend_btn=”f” f_show_slidenum=”t” f_topbar=”f” f_show_watermark=”t” img_title=”casc” linkdest=”c” trans=”xfade” target=”_self” tbs=”5000″ f_link=”t” f_smooth=”f” f_mtrx=”t” f_ap=”t” f_up=”f” height=”400″ btype=”old” bcolor=”#CCC” ] Four vehicles were involved, including one HGV – and two cars hit each other head on careering into scaffolding. A number of supporting beams on the scaffolding were completely bent out of position – appearing to leave only a few beams and the vehicle holding the weight of the frame. Simon Hickey  a First officer with Virgin Atlantic told us what he saw: “I was the third car behind the HGV, a car came around the corner, clipped the back of the lorry – and hit another car. “The car in front of me reversed, I reversed. Then two cars went under the scaffolding and into the side of the building.” https://youtu.be/XUiJSg_Q1XQ We understand one person has been taken to hospital. Simon said that what he did to help: “I jumped out, ran over – the driver of the Subaru, a chap in about his 70’s I think, he had his foot flat on the accelerator the front wheels were smoking. “So I reached in and turned off the engine. He wasn’t injured or trapped but he was in a deep state of shock. “I think he had some chest pains which I suspect were from the airbags.”  @UKNIP