A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a collision in Stoke on Trent today.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to a road traffic collision involving a car that had collided with a hedge on Greenway Bank, Bridley Ford at 12.39pm and sent one ambulance, a paramedic officer and the Midland Air Ambulance from Cosford to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “On arrival, crews discovered a man from the car who is believed to have suffered a medical incident at the wheel.
“He was assessed by ambulance staff and had sustained serious injuries. He received advanced trauma care at the scene.
“He was conveyed to Royal Stoke University Hospital by land ambulance under emergency blue light conditions with air ambulance medics travelling to continue treatment en route.”
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.
