Casualty cut free after four hurt in Oswestry A5 crash
Two people were seriously injured in a crash near Oswestry.
One casualty had to be cut from the wreckage of a car after the accident near Oswestry.
Four people, two of them teenagers, were hurt in the two-vehicle crash which happened on the A5 near to the Mile End Golf Club just before 9.30am on Monday.
Emergency services were quickly on the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We sent five ambulances, two paramedic officers and a MERIT trauma doctor to the scene and an off duty paramedic also stopped at the scene to offer assistance.
"On arrival we discovered a total of four patients. A teenage girl, who was a passenger, managed to get herself out of the car and was treated for potentially serious injuries before being transported to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on blue lights and sirens. A man, who was also a passenger, was also treated for potentially serious injuries and taken to the same hospital on alert.
"The two drivers of the cars, a teenage male and a man, were both treated for injuries not believed to be serious before also being taken to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.”
Shropshire Fire Service sent three crews from Oswestry, Baschurch and Wellington to the scene.
It said one casualty was released from the wreckage using cutting equipment in an operation lasting half an hour.
