Road traffic collision in Tatenhill

Sunday 10th August 2014 – 7.30pm – Chris Kowalik.

A car has overturned injuring the three people in it in Staffordshire.

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the junction of Dunstall Cross and Rangemore Hill, Tatenhill shortly before 10.30am today.

Three ambulance crews, a paramedic area support officer and a BASICS emergency doctor attended. The crew of the nearby Midlands Air Ambulance base in Tatenhill also attended by blue-light car.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “Two cars had collided. One had overturned.

“There were three people in the overturned car. The rear seat passenger, a man in his twenties, had head and facial injuries. He also had leg pain. Pain relief and drugs were administered to stabilise his condition and he was taken on blue lights to the University of North Staffordshire.

“The driver, a man in his sixties, and his front-seat passenger, a woman in her fifties, both had minor injuries. They were both immobilised with the use of neck collars and spinal boards as a precaution before being taken to Queen’s Hospital in Burton.”

WMAS Logo on side of RRV 3

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