A woman has tragically died after a dog attacked her in Coventry this afternoon.
West Midlands Ambulance Service received a 999 call at 12.16pm today (Monday) reporting a dog attack at a property on Wexford Road, Coventry. Two ambulances, a paramedic officer and two Midlands Air Ambulance Charity helicopters responded with the first ambulance arriving on scene within six minutes of the call.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Ambulance staff arrived with police officers to find a woman inside a property in a critical condition.
“With help from police, the woman was rapidly removed from the property due to safety concerns. Ambulance staff performed advanced life support but tragically, despite their best efforts, nothing could be done to save the woman and she was confirmed dead on scene a short time later.
“No one else was injured in the incident.”
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.
