A woman has been airlifted to hospital after a car and tractor collided this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the incident near to the junction of the A4103 and B4214 in Bishops Frome, at 6.58am. One ambulance, A MERIT doctor with a Critical Care Paramedic, a BASICS doctor from the Mercian Accident Rescue Service and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford attended the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “On arrival we discovered one patient, a woman, who was trapped inside her car.
“Ambulance staff worked closely with other emergency service colleagues to free the woman, a process which took more than an hour.
“She was treated for serious injuries, not believed to be life-threatening, before being airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.”
“The tractor driver was uninjured 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.
