Covid-19: West Midlands Ambulance Service records busiest day
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An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.
On Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.
Seven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.
The ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being extremely busy .
At the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.
The accident happened at the junction of High Street and Bromley Street at around 2.17pm. People reported on social media that the road was closed and traffic diverted while emergency services dealt with the scene. The driver of the car was taken to the QE Hospital with injuries not believed to be life threatening. A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: We were called at 2.17pm to a crash between a lorry and a car at the junction of High Street and Bromley Street. We sent three ambulances and two paramedic officers. They treated a man who was driving the car and he s been taken to the QE with injuries not believed to be life threatening.
Teenager seriously injured after moped collides with car in Coventry
Ambulance and police were called to the scene in Windmill Road (Image: Windmill Road where the incident occurred (google street view))
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19:40, 2 JAN 2021
Emergency services at Goldenhill Golf Course
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Emergency services have been called to a Stoke-on-Trent golf course this evening.
Eye-witnesses reported seeing four ambulances and a fire engine at Goldenhill Golf Course, on Mobberley Road, this evening (January 2).
One eye-witness said: Something has happened on the golf course.
05:00, 1 JAN 2021
The ice on Robert Heath Street, Smallthorne, where a lady in her 80s slipped and cut her head
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Shoppers are demanding a council grit the pavements around a busy shopping street after an elderly lady slipped on the ice.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to Robert Heath Street, off Ford Green Road, in Smallthorne, earlier this week after a lady in her 80s fell and cut her head.