A woman who was trapped in her car under a 40 tonne container following a collision on Carr's Hill yesterday remains in a serious condition in hospital
The rescue operation has been described as one of the most technically difficult rescues in Cork city in the last decade
Gardaí are trying to establish the details of the crash but it's understood there was a collision between a car and an articulated truck which caused it to jackknife and fall onto a car travelling in the opposite direction
Heavy lifting equipment was needed in the three hour operation to extract the woman in her 50's from the wreckage
Speaking to RedFM News Emergency medicine consultant Jason van Der Velde says medicine had to be transported to the scene to keep the woman alive
"At one stage we had the guards running blood samples for us down to CUH to just get live feedback and what was actually going on with her physiologically and then enabling the ambulance service, advance paramedics who literally had to call in to a narrow space to administer medications and things, you know, to treat her and that ultimately, that's what saved her life and their close collaboration with all the emergency services"
