A man has sustained very serious injuries following a collision in Erdington this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called just after 6am to a collision involving a car and a tree at the junction of Abbotts Road and Tyburn Road in Erdington. Two ambulances, two paramedic officers, the WMAS Critical Care Car and a Critical Care Car from The Air Ambulance Service attended the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Upon arrival we found a man who was the driver of the car. He was extricated from the vehicle by the fire service.
“Once extricated, he was assessed by ambulance staff and has sustained very serious injuries. He received advanced trauma care from ambulance staff at the scene.
“He was conveyed 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.
