A road traffic collision involving a motorcycle and car in Reddich yesterday left one teenager with life-threatening injuries.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the junction of Studley Road and Howards Road, Redditch at 12.34pm. Two paramedic officers, two ambulances and the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity from Strensham with a doctor and paramedic on board responded to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “When emergency services arrived on scene, they found a motorcycle and car which had been involved in a collision. A teenage boy, who had reportedly been on the motorcycle, was assessed by the team of ambulance staff and found with life-threatening injuries. He received advanced trauma care on scene before being conveyed, by land ambulance on blue lights, to Birmingham Children’s Hospital for further emergency care.
“A second person from the motorcycle was assessed and left with police. The car driver was uninjured.”
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.
