A teenager was impaled through the stomach with a piece of metal when a car careered through a roadside guard rail and down an embankment, stopping just short of a lake in Melbourne’s north.
The teen was a passenger in the car that lost control as it turned into Murray Road in Coburg North about 9.30pm (AEDT).
It travelled down an embankment and stopped at the edge of Coburg Lake.
A Metropolitan Ambulance Service spokesman said a piece of the guard rail pierced the passenger door of the car and and went through the boy’s abdomen.
He said it took fire crews about an hour to cut the metal railing and release the boy from the car.
Paramedics gave the teen pain relief and oxygen and he was conscious throughout the ordeal.
He was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition with the metal still in his abdomen.
The spokesman said fire crews used chains to prevent the car from slipping into the lake.
Two other people in the car, including the 20-year-old driver, escaped unharmed.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the crash to come forward.
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