A teenager has suffered a fractured skull and several broken bones after the car he was in with three other teenage boys was crushed by a truck in Melbourne.
The four boys were driving a Volkswagen Bora in Somerton about 3.30am on Monday when they collided with a semi-trailer truck.
Emergency services had to cut the group out of the wreckage of their vehicle.
Three of the teenagers were critically injured.
One boy was airlifted to The Alfred hospital with critical head injuries, while the other three were taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Two of the four remain critical, but the condition of one teenager has improved to serious but stable, a hospital spokeswoman told AAP.
Detective Sergeant David Newman from the Major Collision Investigation Unit told 3AW the crash scene was a "mess".
"Speed and an impact with a truck of that size ... it is a mess, it was trapped underneath the truck," he said.
"The impact was so great it's actually tipped the truck on its side."
Det Sgt Newman said witnesses estimated the car was travelling at more than 100km/h in an 80km/h zone.
One of the teenagers, 17-year-old Jose, told Channel Nine news on Monday night that he was sitting behind the driver's seat when their car was crushed.
"I've got a broken nose, broken spine, broken hip and a fractured skull," he said from hospital.
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