Air ambulance called after serious accident closes road out of Oswestry
A driver has been seriously injured in a crash on a main road out of Oswestry.
The B5069 road to the A5 and Gobowen was closed after the accident which happened just before 3pm.
Emergency services including the Midlands Air Ambulance went to the scene following 999 calls and discovered a one-vehicle accident and a man, the driver of the car, trapped in his vehicle.
Firefighters were able to free the man and he was then treated at the scene.
A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance said: "We treated the driver, a man, in a critical condition and he was conveyed to Royal Stoke University by air ambulance.”
Local police closed the road and urged drivers to find alternative routes going in an out of the town.
