Man airlifted to hospital after ladder fall in Shrewsbury

A land ambulance and air ambulance were called to the Meole Brace area of the town after the man in his 60s sustained multiple injuries in the fall this morning.

Murray MacGregor, speaking for West Midlands Ambulance Service said the land ambulance was first on the scene and conveyed the man from the street where he had fallen to the playing fields next to Meole Brace Primary School, where the helicopter was able to land.

He said: "We were called at about 10.45am to Upper Road, Shrewsbury, a 63-year-old man had fallen from a ladder and received head injuries, a fractured left arm and potentially an abdominal injury.

"Our crew took him to where the helicopter had landed at a playing field on Church Road."

The man was expected to be taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for treatment.