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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Oliver Clay

Air ambulance lands after driver crashes car into wall

A motorist has been taken to hospital following a collision involving a car and a garden wall.

Emergency services were called to Spur Road in Runcorn at 11.26am today. A Cheshire Police spokesman said officers found a grey car had collided with a wall.

The collision happened near traffic lights at the junction with Halton Brook and Halton Lodge. A passer-by told the ECHO they had seen paramedics providing first aid to a man who had been removed from the car.

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Cordons were in place around the collision with access blocked including from Halton Brook Avenue and Central Expressway.

The wall backed onto a garden at the rear of a row of houses on Brackendale.

When the ECHO attended the scene, an air ambulance could be seen taking off and leaving the area, although the police spokesman said the patient was transported by land ambulance.

The spokesman said: "At 11.26am on Friday, February 10, police were called to reports of a collision on Spur Road, Runcorn.

An air ambulance leaves the scene of the collision on Spur Road in Runcorn on Friday. (runcornweeklynews)

"Officers attended the scene and found a grey car had collided with a wall.

"Paramedics and air ambulance attended the scene and the man has been taken to hospital."

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