BMW falls on Chippenham man’s head sparking major ambulance response

A BMW has fallen on a man’s head in Chippenham sparking a major ambulance response.

Specialist medics raced to the scene in Hill Corner Road at around 4.30pm this afternoon.

The man, who had been working on a blue one series, was undoing bolts when the car fell onto his head, trapping him. A wheel below the vehicle stopped the car from falling fully to the ground.

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On hearing his screams for help, his daughter’s boyfriend managed to race out and quickly free him from beneath the car using a jack.

Wiltshire Air Ambulance landed in a field in Oaklands, whilst specialist Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) medics and a critical care doctor from SWIFT Medics responded in blue light vehicles.

A spokesperson for South Western Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 4.23pm to a report someone was trapped under a vehicle.

“Our teams treated a male patient and transported him to hospital by land. His condition wasn’t thought to be too serious.”

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