Six people have been injured and three airlifted to hospital after a four vehicle collision on the Great Ocean Road at Glenaire, east of Lavers Hill.
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Sergeant Tim Kerrison of Colac police said the accident happened about 4pm on Saturday when a vehicle being driven on the wrong side of the road collided head on with another vehicle.
Sergeant Kerrison said the vehicle on the wrong side of the road was believed to have been driven by an international visitor.
He said that after vehicles involved in the initial head-on collision spun around, vehicles following behind each of the initial two vehicles collided with each other.
An Ambulance Victoria spokesman said a man in his fifties was flown to the Alfred hospital with leg injuries and a woman in her 30s was flown to Royal Melbourne Hospital with abdominal injuries.
A primary school aged boy was also flown to the Royal Children’s Hospital with head injuries. All were in a serious but stable condition, the spokesman said.
Another three people were taken to Geelong by road for treatment and all were in a stable condition.
They were a man in his 40s with facial and arm injuries, a woman her 20s with leg injuries and a woman in her 60s with chest injuries.
An air ambulance was back in the Otways on Saturday night picking up a man in his 40s who suffered serious injuries in a vehicle accident at Tanybyrn, north of Apollo Bay.
He was flown to the Alfred hospital.