Yahoo News Air ambulance called in as 'medical emergency' shuts Staffordshire road
Paramedics administered 'advanced life support' to a motorist after the air ambulance was scrambled to a 'medical emergency' which shut a Staffordshire road. Emergency services descended on the A38 in Burton where a caring bystander had begun helping the man.
The alarm was raised just before 4.05pm yesterday (May 13) with police and paramedics called to the stretch through Stretton. During the height of the incident National Highways issued an alert to motorists warning the northbound carriageway was 'blocked'.
Today West Midlands Ambulance Service say the patient was taken to Royal Derby Hospital by land ambulance. A spokeswoman said: "We were called to reports of a motorist who had suffered a medical emergency on the A38 in Stretton.
"Two ambulances and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Staffordshire attended the scene. On arrival we discovered a man, who had been removed from his car, receiving basic life support from a bystander.
"Ambulance staff quickly began administering advanced life support before the patient was transferred to Royal Derby Hospital by land ambulance. The patient’s condition remained serious upon arrival at hospital."
