UK: Man injured in model train crash
Posted: 07 Nov 2011, 08:33
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.
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.