The emergency equipment of AustraliaThey rescued a man that had stayed trapped in a sewer from the city of Brisbane for about 30 hours, while the Police indicated this Tuesday that they have opened an investigation to clarify what happened. The man, about 38 years old, was transferred to a city hospital in stable condition after the rescue that occurred on Monday morning, the Ambulance Service of the northeastern state of queenslandwhose capital is Brisbane.

The Police of this jurisdiction, for their part, indicated that the man collaborates with authorities following an open investigation for two incidents of dangerous driving that occurred near where the subject was rescued.

According to the official statement sent this Tuesday to EFE, a car hit and escaped from a police vehicle in the early hours of Sunday, only to be involved in another accident minutes later. The occupants of the suspicious vehicle fled the area on foot after this second accident, emphasize the authorities who review the images from the area’s security cameras in search of new clues.

The neighbor who called the emergency teams told ABC public channel that he saw the man trapped in the sewer with knee-deep water and with a mobile phone in his hand. However, the trapped man rejected the neighbor’s offer of help at that time, stating that he had gone into the place to recover his mobile phone, according to local media.

“He seemed fine. And he said he could go out the way he came in. So I basically left him alone (…) I thought that if he has a phone and is in trouble, he can call the emergency services himself,” said the neighbor, identified as James Lingwood. On Sunday morning, when Lingwood was preparing to take a walk He heard noises coming from the sewer againwhere the man was still trapped and finally called the firefighters, who took five minutes to carry out the rescue.