Saturday 30th March 2013 – 12.40pm – Chris Kowalik.
A pedestrian has been airlifted to a major trauma centre following a collision with a lorry in Worcestershire.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to Bromyard Road, Knightwick shortly after 10.50am today.
A community paramedic in a rapid response vehicle, a paramedic area support officer in a rapid response vehicle, the MERIT team of a trauma doctor and a critical care practitioner, an ambulance crew and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Strensham attended. A GP who was in the area at the time had already stopped to help.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “The man who is in his late teens had a head injury. He was anaesthetised at the scene and his airway maintained. Drugs were administered and he was immobilised with the use of a scoop stretcher. A neck collar and SAM splint were applied and, accompanied in the helicopter by the trauma doctor, he was flown to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.”
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