By Luke Voogt
Two teenagers were flown to hospital with serious injuries after a car and a V/Line bus crashed on the Great Ocean Road on Wednesday.
A bus carrying 11 passengers collided with a silver Holden Commodore with two occupants near Artillery Rocks lookout about 10.30am, police said.
SES crews cut open the Commodore to rescue two female occupants trapped in the crash.
Both were safely extricated by about 11.30am, a VICSES spokesperson said.
An ambulance helicopter took one occupant, a teenage girl, to Royal Children’s Hospital in a stable condition with upper and lower body injuries.
A separate helicopter took the other occupant, also a female teenager, to Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition with upper and lower body injuries.
Paramedics treated the bus driver onsite after he suffered a medical condition, police said.
Paramedics took five people by road to Lorne Community Hospital, according to Ambulance Victoria.
They included a man in his 60s, a woman in her 50s, a man in his 50s and two female teenagers. All five had no obvious injuries.
