{"id":13572,"date":"2026-05-18T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/13572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:07:34","slug":"wild-crash-splits-car-in-half-closes-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/13572\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild crash splits car in half, closes highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has miraculously walked away from the wreckage of a vehicle which split in half, burst into flames, damaged another car and brought down power lines on a major arterial road in Sydney\u2019s west.<\/p>\n

The Hume Highway was left completely closed at Villawood near Farrell Road at about 9.30pm on Sunday when a sedan was torn in half after hitting a power pole.<\/p>\n

\"Bystanders<\/p>\n

Bystanders filmed the wreckage as police kept people at a safe distance. Picture: 7News<\/p>\n

Emergency services arrived to find the vehicle had split in two and caught alight, before the rear of the sedan struck a hatchback being driven west by a 48-year-old man, police say.<\/p>\n

The rest of the vehicle was found 200m from the impact site at the pole.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 24-year-old driver escaped the wreckage and was assisted at the scene by passers-by until NSW Ambulance paramedics arrived and took him to Royal North Shore hospital,\u201d NSW Police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second driver was taken to Liverpool Hospital for assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The vehicle burst into flames after it was split in half. Picture: 7News<\/p>\n

According to police, the force of the impact \u201csnapped the pole in half,\u201d bringing down a number of powerlines and shutting off the entire highway for four hours.<\/p>\n

The highway had been fully reopened with minor congestion by 8am on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

An investigation into the crash has been initiated by Bankstown Police Area Command.<\/p>\n

Police are urging anybody with CCTV or dashcam footage of the incident to contact Bankstown Police or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has miraculously walked away from the wreckage of a vehicle which split in half, burst into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,14095,7591,14094,2021],"class_list":["post-13572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-highway","tag-horror-crash","tag-hume-highway","tag-nsw-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}