A WOMAN in her 30s suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash between a car and a van in Newport this afternoon (Tuesday February 7).
Medics carried out an emergency operation at the scene of the accident in Newport Road after the air ambulance touched down in a nearby field.
Emergency service crews were called around 1.10pm.
The clinical team were first on the scene and worked closely with fire crews to extricate the woman from the vehicle.
The doctor and paramedic operated on her chest to help her breathe and also applied a pelvic splint. The patient, who had also sustained a head injury, was escorted by the East Anglian Air Ambulance crew to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, in a road ambulance.
Upon arrival at hospital her condition was described as life-threatening.
Fire crews from Newport and Saffron Walden used specialist hydraulic cutting gear to release the woman from the wreckage. She was trapped for half-an-hour.
