Police accident sign. Pic: Anthony Grimley
Police accident sign. Pic: Anthony Grimley

A family have been injured after their car crashed on the M6 Toll near Lichfield.

The people carrier the four were travelling in was towing a caravan when it collided with another car on the southbound carriageway near the T4 junction at 7.30pm on Saturday (July 2).

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said:

“The people carrier had overturned. First on scene were three members of staff from a medical events company returning to Macclesfield from a motocross event in Nottingham. They helped hold the necks of the patients still and then, after the arrival of ambulance crews, helped apply dressings to wounds and put the patients onto spinal boards.

“There were five people in the car. The man driving it was uninjured. A woman in her forties who had managed to get out of the vehicle had pelvic and spinal injuries. She was immobilised with the use of a spinal board and neck collar and was flown to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

“A 17-year-old girl had abdominal and spinal injuries, a sixteen year old girl had a minor ankle injury and a twelve year old boy had neck pain. All three were placed onto spinal boards and had neck collars applied and were taken by land ambulances to Good Hope Hospital.”

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