A young child has been airlifted for treatment after a car was reported to have ploughed into pedestrians outside a hospital in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The incident happened outside Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest at around 11.50am on Wednesday, Dyfed-Powys Police said.
The force said a there will be a police presence at the hospital for a number of hours as officers investigate the circumstances surrounding the collision. A pedestrian, the driver of the car and a passenger have all been taken to hospital, while the infant was said to have been flown almost 100 miles across the country to Cardiff for treatment.
A Dyfed-Powys Police spokesman said: “Officers are at the scene of an incident outside Withybush Hospital following a report of a car in collision with pedestrians at approximately 11.50am. An infant has been airlifted to Cardiff for treatment.
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“A pedestrian, the driver of the car and a passenger have all been taken to hospital for treatment. There will be a police presence outside the hospital for a number of hours as officers investigate the circumstances surrounding the collision.”
Andrew Burns, hospital director at Withybush Hospital said: “A traffic incident occurred at lunchtime today on the grounds of Withybush Hospital and Dyfed-Powys Police are in attendance. Appropriate medical care is being given to those who were injured in the incident and we kindly ask people not to contact the hospital for more information at this time.
"Services continue to operate as normal at Withybush Hospital today. If you are attending for an outpatient appointment, you may experience some delay in parking while investigations are underway but this is expected to return to normal in due course.
“Please ensure you access the healthcare service most appropriate to your need as we are experiencing some additional pressure on our urgent and emergency care services at this time. Please, only attend A&E if you have a life-threatening illness or serious injury. To ensure that we can treat patients appropriately, we urge you to choose your healthcare services very carefully, so that we are only seeing people with urgent or emergency care needs in A&E.
Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the crash or has dashcam footage of it to contact them quoting reference DP-20230621-173.
