Owners of a Hastings gym are inviting the person who hurled a brick through their window yesterday morning to come back, join up and turn their life around.

Emergency services were called to the intersection of Farndon and Pakowhai Rd in Hastings at 2pm where the two vehicles had collided.

A Hawke's Bay mechanic says he found two women - one unresponsive, the other trapped and covered in blood - as he rushed to the scene of a serious crash near Hastings yesterday.

A jury is now considering the fate of an former St John officer accused of sexually assaulting four women in the back of his ambulance.