Villagers worried after 40-minute wait for emergency crews in response to serious car crash
Villagers have been left nervous after a 40-minute wait for emergency services in response to a car crash that left a driver trapped inside his vehicle.
Residents in Chirbury, less than two miles from the border with Powys, called 999 after a driver coming along the A490 from Churchstoke crashed at around 10.50pm on Friday.
The unnamed motorist lost control and smashed through a telegraph pole and into a stone wall before 'careering' down the road and crashing into the wall at the house on the junction with the B4386, ending up upside down.
He was reportedly "lucky to be alive" after crashing in the same place as another driver who lost his life in 2021.
Councillor Heather Kidd, who was also on the scene of the crash near her home, said: "It took 40 minutes for a fire engine to get here. It took 50 minutes before police turned up, 55 before we got an ambulance. Nobody was injured luckily."
"We can't have that as we live on the border," Councillor Kidd continued.
Describing the wait on Friday night as "too long", she added: "I don't want this to happen to anyone else. It needs to be sorted out."
A resident at the scene said he checked the driver and found he was breathing while a relative rang 999. He said he was "quite shocked" at how long it took emergency services to arrive, saying: "It just felt like hours.
