Vic: Paramedics treat two people after tram accident

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2007
Vic: Paramedics treat two people after tram accident

MELBOURNE, April 3 AAP - Two people have been treated by paramedics after a tram collided
with a car in Melbourne's central business district.

The Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS) said the accident happened about midday (AEST)
today on the corner of Collins and Spring streets in the city.

"One person we took to hospital, which was the driver of the car, a man aged in his
early 50s," a MAS spokesman said.

"We took him to St Vincents hospital for observation.

"There were no obvious injuries, but we took him there as a precaution."

Paramedics also treated a woman aged in her 20s, who was a passenger on the tram, after
she complained of leg pain.

She did not require hospital treatment, the spokesman said.

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