Boy, 16, suffers serious head injuries in crash near Shrewsbury

Emergency services were called to Upton Magna at about 11.15pm on Wednesday, where the 16-year-old had to be cut from a Green Vauxhall Corsa by firefighters from Shrewsbury station.

West Midlands Ambulance Service says it was called to a road near to the primary school, where a car had hit a concrete post.

Claire Brown, West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “When the emergency services arrived they found a car which had collided with a concrete post; four occupants were out of the car.

"A 16-year-old teenage boy, a rear seat passenger, was unconscious. Upon assessment by ambulance staff he was found to have sustained a serious head injury.

"While ambulance staff worked to administer trauma care to the boy, the fire service quickly worked around them to release the teenager from the wreckage.

“The boy was given advanced pain relief, oxygen and other interventions to help stabilise his condition before he was immobilised onto a spinal board and alerted to Royal Stoke University Hospital for further emergency care; MERIT travelled in the back of the ambulance with the crew to continue treatment and monitoring en route.

“The four other occupants were assessed on scene but were uninjured and didn’t require hospital treatment.”

The boy is now believed to be in stable condition.

Two ambulances, a paramedic officer and the MERIT trauma team with a doctor and paramedic on board attended and police were also at the scene.

Officers are now appealing for anyone who may have been within the area at the time of the incident to come forward. They are also keen to people who saw the car and the manner in which it was being driven before the collision.

Anyone with information is asked to call West Mercia Police on 101 quoting incident 832s of August 2.