A woman and child have been seriously injured following a road traffic collision in Kings Heath, Birmingham this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the High Street at 8.51am. A MERIT trauma doctor arrived on scene within 9 minutes followed by two ambulances, two paramedic officers and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “On arrival, crews discovered two pedestrians and a vehicle had been involved in a collision.
“Medical staff immediately began administering advanced trauma care to the first patient, a child, before conveying him via land ambulance to Birmingham Children’s Hospital for further treatment.
“The second patient, a woman, was treated by ambulance staff for serious injuries and conveyed by land ambulance on blue lights to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for further treatment.”
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is an independent healthcare provider. We work in close partnership with NHS Ambulance Services, including West Midlands Ambulance Service and South Western Ambulance Service, to deliver advanced pre-hospital emergency care across the six counties we serve, as well as supporting national responses during major incidents. We are dispatched to cases of the highest severity, where our Critical Care Paramedics and HEMS Doctors – deployed by helicopter or critical care car – work alongside NHS ambulance crews at the scene. Together, we provide specialist interventions, bringing hospital-level emergency medicine directly to incidents in our communities and workplaces when it is needed most.
