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North nurse rescues teenager from burning car

Sep 4 2011 by Joanne Butcher, Sunday Sun

Carole Goulden

A HERO off-duty nurse has told how she saved the life of a teenager trapped in a burning car following a horror smash.

Carole Goulden pulled the 17-year-old girl out of the car moments before it exploded in a fireball.

The girl is now in hospital with serious injuries, but doctors are hopeful she will pull through.

Carole, who has worked as a staff nurse for 11 years, was travelling back from a wedding at Beamish Hall with her friends, fellow nurses Carly Byrne and Helen Yeung.

Just before 1am, they were driving along the A6076 Burdon Plain when they spotted the wreckage of several cars, near the Potter’s Wheel pub in Sunniside, Gateshead.

A car which was travelling north along the road, with an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old girls inside, had collided head-on with two other vehicles, bursting into flames on impact.

The man, understood to be the driver, and the front-seat passenger, thought to be his girlfriend, had escaped the car before the nurses arrived.

But the other girl, who had been in the back seat of the car, was unconscious, lying inside.

“We were one of the first on the scene,” explained Carole, 33, of Killingworth, North Tyneside. “We all got out to see if we could help.

“Carly and Helen were seeing to the other two youngsters and they started screaming that someone was still inside.

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