Live Watford traffic updates as busy road shuts after serious crash
Drivers are being asked to avoid the area
Hempstead Road at the junction with Langley Road (Image: Google Maps)
Drivers are being asked to avoid a busy area of north Watford after a crash in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday, December 16).
Hempstead Road, which leads into the town centre, has been closed after a collision at the junction with Langley Road.
The incident was first reported just after 3.13am, with Hertfordshire Constabulary warning motorists to avoid the area.
The road has remained closed this morning as the investigation and recovery continues, with the road closed as far as Courtlands Drive.
Unlucky - Man trapped in Bourne Brook after accidental slip. Picture: Jane Donaghy AN eagle-eyed artist managed to snap a photograph of a man who had slipped into a brook. Jane Donaghy, 45, from Chappel, captured the unlucky driver while on the way to see her horses near Greenstead Green. When she tried finding an alternative route due to all the flooding, she spotted the man sitting on top of his car in the Bourne Brook. Three hazardous area response team vehicles, an ambulance and two ambulance officers from the East of England Ambulance Service were sent to the scene. Crews rescued and treated the patient before transporting him to Colchester Hospital for further assessment and care.
Unlucky - Man trapped in Bourne Brook after accidental slip. Picture: Jane Donaghy AN eagle-eyed artist managed to snap a photograph of a man who had slipped into a brook. Jane Donaghy, 45, from Chappel, captured the unlucky driver while on the way to see her horses near Greenstead Green. When she tried finding an alternative route due to all the flooding, she spotted the man sitting on top of his car in the Bourne Brook. Three hazardous area response team vehicles, an ambulance and two ambulance officers from the East of England Ambulance Service were sent to the scene. Crews rescued and treated the patient before transporting him to Colchester Hospital for further assessment and care.
Unlucky - Man trapped in Bourne Brook after accidental slip. Picture: Jane Donaghy AN eagle-eyed artist managed to snap a photograph of a man who had slipped into a brook. Jane Donaghy, 45, from Chappel, captured the unlucky driver while on the way to see her horses near Greenstead Green. When she tried finding an alternative route due to all the flooding, she spotted the man sitting on top of his car in the Bourne Brook. Three hazardous area response team vehicles, an ambulance and two ambulance officers from the East of England Ambulance Service were sent to the scene. Crews rescued and treated the patient before transporting him to Colchester Hospital for further assessment and care.
The East Anglian Air Ambulance responded. Picture: EAAA
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An air ambulance was called to deal with a medical emergency at a doctor s surgery.
East Anglian Air Ambulance s Norwich-based helicopter Anglia One was dispatched to Wymondham at 1.21pm on Tuesday (December 15).
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service confirmed its medical teams had responded to reports of a teenage boy suffering a medical emergency at Wymondham Medical Centre.
An ambulance, community first responder and an ambulance officer vehicle were sent to the practice, on Postmill Close.
The patient was transported to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital by road ambulance.