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N.B. driver seriously injured when guardrail goes through vehicle

A driver was seriously injured after a vehicle lost control in Musquash, N.B. Lt. Paul Poirier/ Musquash Fire Department

A driver suffered serious injuries in a crash on Highway 1 in Musquash, N.B. during Wednesday night’s stormy weather.

The Musquash Fire Department says they were called to the accident near marker 94 just before 5:30 p.m.

Firefighters found the vehicle had spun out of control, hit a guardrail and continued down the highway. The metal guardrail had cut through the car behind the driver’s front tire and exited through the passenger compartment on the other side.

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The patient was extricated from the car and taken to the Saint John Regional Hospital by paramedics with serious injuries.

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