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Van plunges 200 metres down Mid Wales mountainside

A man has been airlifted to hospital after a van has plunged 200 metres down a mountainside in Mid Wales.

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The crash, also involving a lorry, happened shortly before 9am on the B4391 between Bala and Llangynog.

Dyfed-Powys Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service and the air ambulance are on the scene, with Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue crews in attendance from Llanfyllin and Welshpool.

Liam Randall, a spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said: "We were called at shortly after 8.40am this morning to reports of a road traffic collision involving a van and a lorry on the B4391 between Llangynog and Bala.

"The Wales Air Ambulance and a crew in an emergency ambulance attended and a man was airlifted to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in a stable condition."

A spokesman for Dyfed-Powys Police said: "The van had fallen approximately 200 metres down the side of the road. Its driver has been conveyed to hospital with a head injury which is not thought to be life-threatening.

"The collision was reported at 8.23am and the road will remain closed for the foreseeable future."

Anyone with information about the collision, or who saw either a van or lorry driving along the road at this time, is asked to contact the Newtown Roads Policing Unit on 101.

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