Three Separate Rollover Collisions in St. John's Send Four to Hospital

Ryan Smith

4 hours ago

1 min read

The first call firefighters responded to occurred just before 9:50 a.m. at the intersection of Stamps Lane and Empire Avenue.

Crews from west end station arrived to find a three-vehicle collision involving a company van that had landed on its roof, a city of St. John’s work van and a SUV were also involved. All three vehicles sustained significant damage as a result.

As a result of that collision one person was taken to hospital with what are described as non-life threatening injuries.

The second collision occurred just before 11:30 a.m. on the Outer Ring Road travelling west at the Portugal Cove Road off-ramp to travel southbound on to Portugal Cove Road crews from Kenmount and West stations responded.

One person involved in this collision was placed on a spinal board and brought up a steep bank where they were placed on a stretcher and transported to hospital. The other occupant was walked up the bank and into a nearby ambulance where they were believed to have been taken to hospital also.

Both occupants in that vehicle also sustained injuries believed to be non-life threatening.

The last collision occurred just after 12:05 p.m. on the Outer Ring Road in the eastbound lanes just east of the Thorburn Road exit. The driver who a witness said was 36 weeks pregnant was taken to hospital with what were described as non-life threatening injuries.

Traffic in the area of all collisions were slowed or disrupted tell the scenes could be cleared.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary’s Collision Reconstructionist team also attended all three collisions.