A firefighter carries Marie Holgate to a stretcher after her car collided with another, trapping her.

An elderly woman pulled from a car wreck in Wellington today was in remarkably chipper spirits, telling her rescuers she had "never been handled by so many men".

Marie Holgate was cut from a car this morning after a two-car collision on Salamanca Road in central Wellington.

During her rescue, Holgate managed to crack a joke while she was in the arms of a burly firefighter.

"I've never been handled by so many men," she said while grinning from ear to ear.

Thorndon senior firefighter Alan Collett was handed Holgate after she was plucked from the passenger window of her car, which had upturned on to the driver's side on Salamanca Rd about 9.30am.

"They handed her down to me and she was light as a feather and I just put her on the stretcher," Collett said.

"She was well into her 70s and seemed in pretty good spirits. She asked for her shoes and purse."

Holgate was treated at the scene by Wellington Free Ambulance and was resting at home this afternoon.

Her car collided with another at the hairpin where Salamanca Rd and Kelburn Parade meet, a police spokesman said.

The other vehicle involved in the crash was a Mercedes Smart car. The occupant was not injured.