Fighting for his life

A NARRE WARREN man is fighting for his life after a serious collision on the Pakenham Bypass on Monday night.
The 35-year-old man was travelling east-bound when his motorcycle and a Ford sedan, also travelling east-bound, collided at 8pm.
Sergeant Anthony Templar, of Cardinia’s Traffic Management Unit, said the man was thrown in to the air, landed on the road and sustained extensive, life-threatening injuries. His motorcycle burst into flames. Advanced life support paramedics from Pakenham, an intensive care unit from Hampton Park, a responder intensive care paramedic and an ambulance helicopter were called to the scene.
Intensive care paramedic David Kervin said crews arrived to find the man lying on the road with life-threatening injuries.
“He appeared to have collided with a car, throwing him into the air before hitting another car and landing on the road,” he said. “The man suffered significant head injuries, collapsed lungs, abdominal and pelvic injuries as well as fractures to his left arm, and paramedics inserted large needles into both sides of chest to relieve a build-up of any blood or trapped air in his lungs. A drip was then put in his arm and he was given a great deal of pain relief and fluids to help stabilise his condition.”
The man was airlifted to The Alfred hospital in a critical condition.