A MUM who witnessed a dramatic car crash on the A37 said she was unable to sleep for two days because of the shock.

Kim Evans, 41, was driving home to Weymouth from Yeovil on Sunday when she saw two cars collide next to the Long Ash garage in Grimstone.

She told of the crash and backed calls for a cut in the speed limit on the section of road.

A Renault Laguna, being driven by an off-duty nurse, span into the hedge and a black Peugeot 206 was so badly damaged that the emergency services had to cut the driver free before rushing him to Dorset County Hospital.

The police closed the road for almost two hours while the fire service removed the roof of the Peugeot to free the driver.

Two ambulances were also on scene and treated the casualties at before they were taken to Dorset County Hospital.

Both men remain in hospital today and their condition has been described as stable.

Mrs Evans, of Langton Avenue, Wyke Regis, said: “I was driving along and all of a sudden I could see a spinning black car coming towards me before it hit the bush.

“When we all stopped and went over to the car the two men were unconscious.

“The driver side was squashed up and he was in and out of consciousness trying to get out – it was horrible to see.”

She added: “Every time I close my eyes all I see is those men in the car unconscious.”

Mrs Evans and her 16-year-old daughter Shannon assisted at the scene by helping the passenger out of his car and kept his head still until the emergency services arrived.

The second car driver Matthew Phillips, 35, an off duty nurse from Dorset County Hospital, quickly got out of his car and assisted the two unconscious men.

The medical attention he gave the casualties was later hailed a ‘a heroic act’ by the fire service.

Mrs Evans said that she was surprised that someone who had just been in a crash himself could be in a state to give the help he did.

“The nurse that got out of the car and helped those men should be given a medal,” she added.

Following the crash Ross Beale, the manager of the Long Ash service station on the A37 at Grimstone, called for improvements to be made to the road because of people pulling out of the junction on to a high speed road.

He said that the road could be made safer by installing a central turning lane.

Mrs Evans said that she also believed the road was dangerous and that during her whole journey people were pulling out in front of her and overtaking on unsafe bends.

She added: “I think the speed limit there definitely should be 40mph.”