Wednesday 18th December 2013 – 9.30pm – Claire Brown.
Despite advanced life support by ambulance staff, a man has sadly died in a road traffic collision in Smethwick this evening.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to reports of a road traffic collision involving a car and a pedestrian on Thimblemill Road shortly after 6.00pm today (Wednesday). Two ambulances, a responder paramedic, an area support officer and a MERIT trauma doctor attended the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Crews arrived to find a male pedestrian who had been seriously injured.
“The man’s condition quickly deteriorated and he went into cardiac arrest. Ambulance crews and the medic immediately commenced resuscitation at the scene but, sadly, nothing could be done to save the man and he was confirmed dead a short time later.
“The three occupants of a car, believed to be involved in the collision, were checked over by an ambulance crew but did not require hospital treatment.”
ENDS
Such devastating bad news all our hearts go out to the family x
RIP from all the staff at mollies 🙁