- Joseph Bagala was pulled from the wreckage before it burst into flames
- The 39-year-old was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a serious condition
- The car flipped onto its roof in the early hours of Saturday morning
- Police are still trying to identify the three victims; two men and a woman
Father-of-four Joseph Bagala (pictured)
Father-of-four Joseph Bagala survived a horror crash involving a $200,000 supercar in Sydney that killed three.
The 39-year-old was freed from the upside down car by police before it was engulfed in flames with witnesses now claiming the victims ‘screamed for help as they burned alive’.
Tragically two men and a woman could not be saved from the wreckage as the two-door Nissan GT-R R35 burned outside the Novotel Rockford hotel.
The supercar can hit top speeds of 311km/h and can reach 100km/h in just 2.7 seconds, however it is not known whether speed was a factor in the crash.
It’s believed the car hit a railing and flipped onto its roof at 3am on Saturday at the intersection of Harbour and Pier streets.
Three people have died and one man is seriously injured in a single car crash at Sydney’s CBD
Emergency services were called to Harbour Street, in Sydney just before 3am (pictured)
Mr Bagala was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics at the scene before being taken to St Vincent’s Hospital with lacerations and burns to his body.
He remains there in a serious but stable condition.
The Novotel was evacuated as guests reported smelling smoke coming from the blaze on the street below.
Tragically two men and a woman could not be saved from the wreckage as the two-door Nissan GT-R R35 (similar model pictured) burned outside Novotel Rockford hotel
Novotel Rockford guest Sonia Ripepi was woken up by a huge bang and saw the car flipped over on the street outside her window.
‘Then a taxi driver pulled over and he jumped out trying to get the passengers out,’ she told the Daily Telegraph.
‘He was screaming “get out, get out”. The taxi driver was really distressed, he couldn’t get any closer to the car.
A 39-year-old man, one of the passengers in the car, survived the fatal crash but not the driver
‘There were lots of screams still coming out of the car.’
Sydney City Local Area Command Superintendent Paul Pisanos said the police officers put their own welfare on the line to try to extinguish a volatile fire and save lives.
Police are still trying to identify the three victims of the crash.