Wednesday 12th June 2013 – 12.30pm – Steve Parry.
A man has been airlifted to hospital after reportedly falling from a bridge onto the Wolverhampton ring road this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the incident near the railway station at around 10.50am.
An ambulance crew, a responder paramedic officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford were sent to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “A man, believed to be in his thirties, had reportedly been injured after falling from a bridge.
“The man received serious head, chest and pelvic injuries. A doctor from the Midlands Air Ambulance anaesthetised the patient before he was immobilised fully with a neck collar and spinal board and airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
“The hospital was alerted to the serious condition of the patient.”
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