Five people, including a toddler, have been taken to hospital after a collision near Shrewsbury last night.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called at 8.16pm to Holyhead Road in Bicton and sent three ambulances, a paramedic officer, the Midlands Air Ambulance Critical Care Car and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford were sent to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman says: “On arrival, crews found two cars had been involved in a collision.
“A woman was treated by ambulance staff for potentially serious injuries before being conveyed via land ambulance on blue lights to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
“A second woman and a female toddler were treated for potentially serious injuries.
“Whilst two men were treated for injuries not believed to be serious.
“Those four patients were also conveyed to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital via land.”
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.
