Five hurt as car and security van collide in Ludlow
A young boy and his grandparents escaped serious injury after a car and a security van collided.
Firefighters had to cut the roof off a VW Polo to free a man after the crash in Ludlow. Onlookers said the child was saved by his car seat.
Paramedics used a neck collar and spinal board to move the man into an ambulance.
All three were taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with minor injuries, along with two men travelling in the Loomis security van.
The crash happened shortly after 1.30pm yesterday at the junction of Temeside and Old Street.
The van had been going along Temeside when it collided with the car travelling on the B4361 in the direction of Lower Broad Street.
An eyewitness who lives in Old Street, but who did not wish to be named, said: "We were in the garden and heard a loud screech then a bang.
"Then we heard sirens and looked out and saw the flashing lights.
"We came down and saw the car there all smashed up but it still had its roof on.
"The little lad and the lady were out and sat on the grass.
"Then the fire brigade put a screen up and were taking the roof off to get the man out."
She agreed with another eyewitness who said: "The little lad – his car seat saved his life I reckon because it was a high one that went around him."
Firefighter Andy Bevan, from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "We arrived to find three casualties in the car – two adults and a child and there were two occupants in the security van.
"We managed to get the boy out before we used hydraulic cutting tools to remove the roof as to allow us access to his grandfather. They have been taken to hospital along with the boy's grandmother.
"We've got two crews from Ludlow and Craven Arms here, a rescue tender from Wellington and an officer from Shrewsbury."
Claire Brown spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We received a call at 1.36pm to the junction of Old Street and Lower Broad Street. We were treating five patients in total. An ambulance and two responder paramedics were at the scene.
"Four patients were walking wounded and another had neck pain so a collar and spinal board was used to immobilise them.
"The ambulance took the patients to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for treatment."
Constable Lee Barton from West Mercia Police said: "The van has come out of the junction and collided with the car. We have three casualties with relatively minor injuries, a young lad and two older people, and they were all taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital to be checked over."
