A GROUP of 12 people were treated at the scene and taken to hospital after a coach crashed into a motorway bridge on the M6..
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the northbound carriageway, near to junction 2, at 9.42pm on Tuesday night.
Six ambulances, four paramedic officers, the Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team, a MERIT trauma doctor, a BASICS doctor and the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance Critical Care Car all attended.
On arrival crews discovered multiple patients, including one coach passenger, a man, who was in a serious condition.
He received specialist trauma care at the scene before being taken to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.
The coach driver had to be freed by the fire service whilst receiving treatment from medics. It took two hours to release him.
He, and a third man, who was a passenger, were both treated for potentially serious injuries before being taken to the same hospital.
A further nine patients from the coach were treated for injuries not believed to be serious before being taken to George Eliot and Warwick Hospitals.
And a number of other passengers on the coach were assessed and discharged at the scene.
