Thursday 14th March 2013 – 8.55am – Claire Thomas.
A man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being involved in a road traffic collision in Walsall in the early hours.
West Midlands Ambulance Service received several 999 calls to reports of a car which had left the road and collided with a lamppost on West Bromwich Road near to Walstead Road in Walsall at around 2.15am (Thursday). An ambulance crew, a paramedic area support officer, a Hazardous Area Response Team paramedic and a MERIT trauma doctor attended the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Crews arrived to find an unconscious man out of the car.
“The man, believed to be in his 20s, suffered a serious head injury in the collision. After a full assessment, the doctor decided to anaesthetise the man at the scene due to his condition.
“Once stabilised, the man was fully immobilised before being taken by land ambulance on blue lights to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the region’s major trauma centres, for further assessment and treatment.”
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