Man trapped in overturned car for 40 minutes after Shropshire crash
A man was trapped upside-down in his car for 40 minutes today after it overturned on a Shropshire country road.
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The accident happened at about 3.10pm at Hissington, near Bishop's Castle, but the man escaped without serious injury.
He was cut free by four fire crews and a rescue tender from Bishop's Castle, Clun and Wellington.
Jamie Arrowsmith, speaking for West Mercia Ambulance said: "We were called with reports that there was a male patient in a car that had overturned.
"An air ambulance from Cosford was also on the scene, but the patient was taken to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital by land ambulance."
The man was trapped until about 3.50pm but was not believed to be seriously injured, he said.
