MOTORISTS are being urged to avoid the scene of a serious crash involving a transit van near Oswestry.
Oswestry Safer Neighbourhoods Team posted on Twitter that a driver was trapped on the A483/A5 between Whittington and Mile End this afternoon (Wednesday, January 9).
Firefighters and the ambulance service have also been deployed.
A witness near the crash has said that the West Midlands Air Ambulance was also at the scene.
Serious RTC A483/A5 between Whittington & Mile End. Dvr trapped. Fire, ambulance deployed-road closed please avoid.
— Oswestry SNT (@OsCops) January 9, 2019
Shropshire fire and Rescue Service sent three appliance -including the rescue render - from Ellesmere, Oswestry and Wellington. An Operations officer was in attendance.
A spokesman said there had been a collision between a transit van and the trailer of heavy goods vehicle.
"Crews gained access to casualty using holmatro cutting equipment," the spokesman added.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We were called at 11.57am to reports of a collision between a car and a stationary van on the A483, near to Mile End Island. One ambulance, a paramedic officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford attended the scene.
"On arrival we discovered one patient, a man, who was the driver of the car. The man, who had to be cut free by the fire service was treated for multiple injuries, not believed to be life-threatening, before being transported to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital by land ambulance for further assessment."
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