A motorcyclist has been airlifted to a major trauma centre after a road traffic collision in Shrewsbury this afternoon.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called at 12.22pm (Friday) to the A49 in Upper Battlefield, Shrewsbury after reports of a collision involving a car and a motorcycle. An ambulance, a paramedic officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford with a pre-hospital emergency medicine doctor and critical care paramedic on board attended the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “The motorcyclist, a man, was given trauma care at the scene by the team of ambulance staff for potentially serious injuries. He was airlifted to Royal Stoke University Hospital for further emergency care.
“The car driver, a woman, was assessed but didn’t require further treatment by ambulance staff and was discharged on scene.”
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.
