Pensioners injured in Shropshire road crashes
A pensioner was cut out of his car when it flipped on to its roof after hitting a telegraph pole in south Shropshire.
The man in his 70s was airlifted to hospital with chest pains and cuts to his wrists and hands after the crash in Clee Hill Road in Tenbury Wells.
The crash happened yesterday at 1.30pm and the man was released from the car and on his way to Hereford County Hospital within half an hour.
Meanwhile, an elderly woman was seriously injured in a crash between a car and a lorry at a junction near Ludlow.
A Honda Civic and a Mitsubishi Canter dropside lorry collided at the junction of the A49 with the A4113 at Bromfield.
A woman in her eighties was taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, where she is understood to be in a serious but stable condition. The lorry driver was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the crash which happened shortly before 12.50pm on Thursday.
Meanwhile, four cars crashed on a busy island connecting Shrewsbury and Telford at about 4.30pm yesterday. Police officers were called to the accident on the Preston Boat Island but no-one was injured.
