Husband and wife injured in crash

Saturday 13th March 2010, 11:30AM GMT.

A husband and wife were injured when their motorcycle was involved in a crash on a Shropshire main road.

The man was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries while his wife, the pillion passenger, was also taken to hospital.

Police today appealed for witnesses to the accident, which happened on the A483 Oswestry bypass, at the Maesbury Road junction, at 12.30pm yesterday.

Police said a white Mercedes Sprinter panel van and a blue Suzuki motorcycle collided. The road was closed for nearly four hours.

Claire Thomas, of the West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said: “A woman and man, believed to be in their 40s, had come off the motorcycle in the crash.

“The man suffered a broken arm, suspected pelvic injuries and a minor head injury.”

He was airlifted, in a stable condition, to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. His wife suffered a minor head and left shoulder injury. Crews treated her at the scene and took her to the same hospital by ambulance.

The van driver, a man, was not injured but left shaken by the incident. No- one else was injured in the crash and the injuries to the couple are not believed to be life-threatening.

Constable Sarah Louise McGrath, who is investigating the circumstances surrounding the collision, appealed for anyone who might have seen what happened to contact police on 0300 333 3000.

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