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Air ambulance at three-vehicle crash in New Romney

19:01, 04 October 2013

An air ambulance was called out after a three-vehicle crash on Romney Marsh.

It happened on th A259 Dymchurch Road, New Romney, near the Warren Inn
pub at about 4.05pm today.

South East Coast Ambulance Service said it sent out a total six
vehicles, three ambulances and three response cars.

The patient was airlifted to hospital. Stock picture
The patient was airlifted to hospital. Stock picture

A SECAMB spokesman said: “Paramedics triaged three casualties at the
scene and two were treated as priority cases.”

Firefighters were also called out and were seen to have cut open the
roofs of two cars, a practice usually carried out for freeing people
trapped in vehicle wreckage.

By 6.30pm the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance and three land
ambulances had left the scene but police kept the road closed.

The extent of the casualties’ injuries was not yet known.

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