Two air ambulances launches after car flips on roof
A PERSON has been airlifted to hospital after a 'car flipped over on its roof'.
Two air ambulances are reported to have attended the crash on the B3082 Blandford Road, Shapwick.
All three emergency services attended in the early hours of this morning.
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 06:29hrs.
“We sent two air ambulances, an operations officer, and two double-crewed land ambulances. We conveyed one patient by air ambulance to Southampton General Hospital.”
A spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service said: “We were called at 6.12am today following reports of a road traffic collision on the B3082 Blandford Road, Shapwick.
“Firefighters from Wimborne and Poole were mobilised and on arrival found one vehicle on its roof.
“A member of the public had pulled the driver from the vehicle prior to our arrival and fire crews completed casualty care and scene safety until the ambulance service were in attendance.
“We remained on scene until just before 8.30am.”
A spokesperson for Dorset Police said: “We received a report at 6.07am on Thursday 28 September of a single-vehicle collision.
“Emergency services have attended and road closures have been put in place.”
