AN UNCONSCIOUS man has been pulled from a smoking car by an off duty paramedic.
It followed a two-car crash on the A45 dual carriageway at Stretton On Dunsmore at around 5.45am this morning (Wednesday).
Two ambulances, a paramedic and two emergency doctors who fly with the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance were sent to the scene.
The paramedic, who does not work for WMAS, is believed to have arrived shortly after the crash.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “Due to the condition of the man in one of the cars and the fact that the vehicle appeared to be smoking, he took the decision to get the driver out quickly and start treating him.”
The man, in his 20s, suffered serious head and pelvic injuries but started to come round while being treated. He was immobilised before being taken on blue lights to the major trauma centre at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire.
Damage to the vehicles left the driver in the second car trapped. Ambulance staff and firefighters spent around 40 minutes freeing the 33-year-old.
The spokesman said he had suffered an obvious left arm fracture as well as injuries to his chest and pelvic area. He was also immobilised and taken on blue lights to the same trauma centre.
