One person sadly died following a road traffic collision on the M5 last night.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called at 8:15pm to a collision involving a van and a HGV on the M5 between junctions 4 and 4a in Catshill, Bromsgrove. Two ambulances, a paramedic officer, a MERIT trauma doctor and critical care paramedic, two BASICS emergency doctors, and one of Midlands Air Ambulance Charity’s critical care car attended the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Upon arrival we found a man who was the driver of the van.
“He was assessed and was in a critical condition. He received advanced life support from ambulance staff at the scene.
“Unfortunately, it became clear that nothing more could be done to save him and he was confirmed deceased at the 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.
