YEOVIL NEWS: Casualty flown to hospital

ONE casualty was taken to hospital by air ambulance yesterday (Friday, April 11, 2014) following a collision on the outskirts of Yeovil.

The incident took place at just after 2.15pm at the junction of the A37 Dorchester Road and Netherton Lane and involved a car and an articulated lorry.

Two fire engines and a rescue tender from Yeovil were mobilised along with a heavy rescue vehicle from Dorchester.

One person was trapped in the wreckage and crews got to work to free them with hydraulic cutting equipment.

A spokesman for Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said: “Crews continued to work with paramedics to release the casualty who was transferred by air ambulance to hospital.”

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