A man has been air lifted to hospital, a woman has been taken to hospital by land ambulance and 15 others have been assessed following a collision between a train and a trailer just north of Leominster, this morning.
We were called to a collision between a train and a trailer near Nordan Farm at 10.46am and sent two ambulances, five paramedic officers, our Hazardous Area Response Team and the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity Helicopter from Strensham to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “On arrival crews found a man who was a passenger on the train, they treated him for non-life threatening injuries before conveying him by air ambulance to Hereford County Hospital.
“A woman, was also treated for injuries not believed to be serious and conveyed by land ambulance to Hereford County Hospital.
“15 further patients who were passengers on the train were assessed, and all were discharged at the scene.
“Nobody from the trailer required assessment.”
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.
