UK: Man injured in model train crash

[John Ashworth]

Man injured in model train crash

Man suffered abdominal and pelvic injuries after being crushed by model train in his back garden

Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 November 2011 15.31 GMT

A man has been taken to hospital after being crushed by a model train in the back garden of his home.

West Midlands ambulance service was called to a property in Wilmcote near Stratford at around midday on Sunday after the man, who is in his seventies, became trapped under the large-scale model.

An ambulance service spokesman said: "The man in his seventies was apparently sitting on the locomotive when it left the rails and came off a garden wall.

"The patient was trapped for almost 30 minutes as ambulance crews and firefighters worked to release him. "

The patient was taken to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire with abdominal and pelvic injuries by air ambulance, the spokesman said.