Airlift for driver in horror crash.Byline: Catherine Lillington A MAN suffered life threatening injuries after the car he was driving split in two. The car was in collision with a second car and an HGV HGV (in Britain, formerly) heavy goods vehicle HGV (Brit) n abbr (Hist) (= heavy goods vehicle) → Lkw m on the A45 near the border of Solihull and Warwickshire, yesterday afternoon. The man, aged in his 20s and from Coventry, received serious multiple injuries and was airlifted to University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. A West Midlands Ambulance Service The West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Warwickshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire in the West Midlands region. spokesman said: "When crews arrived they found the car in two pieces about 50 yards apart. "The driver, a man in his 20s and from Coventry, had suffered serious multiple injuries. The doctors worked on his injuries and anaesthetised him at the scene before he was airlifted to University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire where a full trauma team A Trauma team is a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department. The team is composed of a number of specific roles, with a typical team consisting of: "A man, also in his 20s, in the second car had minor injuries but was taken to the same hospital as a precaution. "The lorry driver was unhurt. "This was a real team effort by the doctors and ambulance staff which ensured the badly injured man, very rapidly, got the best treatment possible at the scene and at the hospital." |
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