A WOMAN has been taken to hospital with leg injuries after being cut from her car by firefighters following a crash in Alcester High Street yesterday.
Two fire engines, one from Alcester and another from Stratford, police and an ambulance attended the scene just after 10.30am on Monday, January 25.
Firefighters consulted with the ambulance service before removing the roof of the car to free the woman.
The collision involved a white Peugeot van and a black Ford Focus.
The van driver, also a woman, was uninjured.
At the same time as crash, a passing woman collapsed in the High Street and was taken with the driver to the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said the two incidents were unrelated.
Police recovered the vehicles and also closed Henley Street near to the school.
Click below to watch the woman being removed from her car in Alcester High Street.
@WarksFireRescue were excellent today in dealing with accident in Alcester's High Street. pic.twitter.com/R9j7foo1kZ
— Write Angle Media (@writeanglemedia) January 25, 2016
@WarksFireRescue were excellent today in dealing with accident in Alcester's High Street. pic.twitter.com/R9j7foo1kZ
— Write Angle Media (@writeanglemedia) January 25, 2016
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