Driver hurt in yet another A1 crash

Nov 28 2009 The Journal

A DRIVER was airlifted with serious injuries from a smash on the A1 in Northumberland just two days after a coroner predicted there would be more devastation on the route.

In the latest accident, a 64-year-old motorist was involved in a head-on crash, just south of Alnwick, and had to be cut free by firefighters yesterday morning.

Air Ambulance medics were able to stabilise the driver’s condition at the scene, but wounds to his legs were described as “serious”.

Video footage captured at the scene showed the painstaking moments leading up to the rescue operation.

It is understood the driver’s limbs were caught in the crumpled wreckage of his silver Vauxhall Astra as it collided with a black Vauxhall Corsa travelling in the opposite direction, just after 11am.

Fire and rescue crews from Alnwick were called to cut the driver and his female passenger free.

He was transferred to Wansbeck Hospital, in Ashington, by the Great North Air Ambulance, where his condition was last night described as stable. His passenger was not seriously injured.

A female driver in the Corsa was also taken to Wansbeck Hospital for treatment to an arm injury. Traffic was diverted off the A1 at Christon Bank until Denwick.