Man dies as van leaves road and crashes into field near Shropshire border village
Police have confirmed that a driver has died after their van left a carriageway and came to a rest in a field last night.
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Emergency services were called to a road traffic collision on the B4396 in Knockin in Oswestry near the English/Welsh border at 5.20pm on Monday.
West Mercia Police say a man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene.
No one else was involved or injured in the incident that Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service and the ambulance service also attended.
A West Mercia Police statement said: "We were called to a single-vehicle collision on the B4396 in Knockin yesterday, at around 5.20pm. Unfortunately, a man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene.
"No one else was involved or injured."
A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service added: "We were called to reports of a car that had left the road and hit a hedge, on the B4396, near to the Osbaston Junction in Knockin, at 5.11pm, two ambulances, a paramedic officer, the Midlands Air Ambulance Critical Care and the Welsh Air Ambulance attended the scene.
"On arrival we discovered one patient, a man, who was in a critical condition. Ambulance staff immediately began administering advanced life support but sadly, despite their best efforts, it became apparent nothing could be done to save him and he was confirmed dead at the scene."
Two fire crews were sent from Baschurch and Oswestry Fire Stations, as well as an operations officer to the scene.
