Monday 24th March 2014 – 3pm – Chris Kowalik.
A man in his seventies has suffered a head injury in a collision with a bus in Dudley.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to King Street shortly before 1.15pm today.
Two ambulance crews, a paramedic area support officer in a rapid response vehicle and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford attended. A trauma doctor is part of the crew on board the air ambulance.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “The pedestrian had an isolated serious head injury and tenderness to his abdomen. His condition was stabilised at the scene. He was also anaesthetised at the scene and his airway maintained.
“Accompanied by the air ambulance doctor, the man was taken on blue-lights by land ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham which had been put on alert.”
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