Whitehorse: Four hospitalised after crashes involving KFC and dental clinic

An elderly woman smashed through a glass fence at a KFC and an elderly man caused another driver to slam into a dental clinic in a horror few hours on Whitehorse roads, that also saw two children hospitalised in separate incidents.

A Lexus crashed into a Blackburn dental clinic after it was hit by another car.

Two children were among four people rushed to hospital during a shocking few hours on Whitehorse roads.

Police say they can’t understand why Sunday, October 13 was such a bad day for crashes, with good weather throughout the day, but four separate accidents left people needing to be hospitalised.

Nunawading highway patrol Sergeant Paul Egan said human error lead to all the crashes, which also left a KFC restaurant and a dental clinic as casualties.

Four people had to be rushed to hospital by ambulance after crashes in Whitehorse on Sunday.

A five-year-old Glen Waverley girl was rushed to the Royal Children’s Hospital by ambulance after her father’s Volkswagen collided with a Peugeot in Blackburn North about 2.27pm.

Sgt Egan said the 43-year-old Glen Waverley man was turning right from the Eastern Freeway off-ramp onto Middleborough Rd when the car hit the Peugeot, being driven south along the road by a 46-year-old Mount Waverley man.

Neither driver was injured, but the five-year-old was left with minor head injuries.

Sgt Egan said the drivers had conflicting stories about who had a green light and called for anyone who witnessed the incident to contact Crime Stoppers.

A Lexus was hit by a car and sent into the side of a dental clinic in Blackburn.

A six-year-old boy was also taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital in an ambulance that afternoon after he ran into the path of a car in Box Hill North.

The boy was playing on the side of Marshall Rd alongside his mother about 5.20pm when he suddenly ran across the road and was hit by a Holden Barina driven by a 42-year-old Blackburn North woman.

Sgt Egan said fortunately the driver had seen the child on the side of the road and slowed down, but was unable to fully brake in time after he unexpectedly ran across the road.

He was left with minor head and leg injuries.

The dental clinic was damaged.

Sgt Egan said police praised the woman for being aware of her surroundings and slowing down as a precaution.

“If she hadn’t done that the outcome may have a lot worse,” he said.

Earlier in the day a passenger was left with shoulder injuries after the car she was travelling in was struck and sent flying into a dental clinic in Blackburn.

Sgt Egan said an 82-year-old Wonga Park man failed to see an oncoming Lexus when he turned his Ford right out of Holland Rd and into Canterbury Rd about 11.40am.

His car collided with the Lexus, being driven by a 54-year-old Mont Albert woman, sending it out of her control and through a nearby fence and into the wall of a dental clinic.

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Neither driver was injured, but an 84-year-old Mont Albert woman, who was in the front passenger seat of the Lexus, was taken to The Alfred.

The driver of the Ford was fined for failing to give way.

An 80-year-old Burwood woman was taken to Box Hill Hospital with chest pain after she crashed in the drive-through at the KFC restaurant on Burwood Highway in Burwood East.

Sgt Egan said the driver accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake about 1.10pm, causing her Toyota Camry to go through a glass fence and hit the side of the building.