A man’s sustained serious injuries in a crash near the Wiltshire Air Ambulance airbase.
Emergency services were called to a two-vehicle road traffic collision at crossroads in the village of Great Hinton at around 9am this morning (Monday).
A white Peugeot van and a silver Ford Fiesta were involved in the impact, which resulted in the Fiesta coming to rest in a ditch and on a hedgerow.
Wiltshire Air Ambulance was scrambled to the scene in Hinton Lane – making a very short flight from its base two miles away in Semington.
The driver of the Fiesta, a man, sustained a serious injury in the incident. The driver of the van, also a man, was uninjured.
The wounded man was taken to Southmead Hospital, a regional major trauma centre, by land ambulance for treatment. The exact nature of his injury is unknown at present.
At the height of the incident, a double-crewed ambulance, an ambulance officer and four police units – two of which were from the Roads Policing Unit – were in attendance.
A fire engine from Trowbridge was also at the scene, with firefighters providing scene safety. Nobody required extricating from the vehicles.
The crossroads, at the junctions of Hinton Lane and Main Street, were closed for three hours.
