Cyclist airlifted after Ludlow crash
Wednesday 21st July 2010, 10:57AM BST.
A cyclist was airlifted to hospital with a broken ankle following a crash on a Shropshire road.
The long distance cyclist who was travelling from Ireland to Middlesex was involved in the collision on the A49 at Ludlow at a slip road near Bromfield Food Centre just after 5pm.
Murray MacGregor, spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service, said: “The man had suffered a very nasty open fracture to his ankle. There were initially concerns about the effect the break was having on his foot and he was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.”
Three people were also taken to hospital following two separate road accidents on the Powys/Shropshire border.
Emergency services were called to the B4393 between Llanfyllin and Llanfechain at around 9.45am yesterday.
A spokesman for the Mid and West Wales Fire Service said the accident had involved one car which had left the road. One person was taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
At 11.30am, two people were taken to hospital after a collision between a car and a lorry in Llanfyllin.
Traffic heading from South Wales to today’s Royal Welsh Show was also facing delays after a serious crash blocked the A470. Two people were injured in the crash at 10.15pm yesterday.
Meanwhile a 32-year-old man who suffered multiple injuries in a collision in Broseley on Sunday remains in a “stable” condition at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital today.
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