Hurt driver airlifted to hospital after smash

“A few homes lost power but we couldn’t carry on without it being isolated.

“We worked with Yorkshire Air Ambulance paramedics to extricate the male from the car, cutting the driver’s door off which had taken the impact.

“The door came off quite easily from the hinges but it’s a sturdy structure because it’s a convertible.

“The man suffered from suspected pelvic injuries and some internal bleeding to his stomach but he was stable and conscious throughout.”

Firefighters used a longboard to remove the driver from his vehicle and then placed him on an ambulance stretcher before assisting in taking him to the waiting Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

This landed in a flat field at the bottom of Dunford Road and then flew the man to a hospital in Sheffield.

The emergency services worked at the scene for two hours, but engineers remained working there until late last night.

A spokeswoman for Northern Power Grid said it was made aware of the incident by a member of the public and its engineers quickly isolated the electrical supply. Fire and ambulance crews carry the injured driver of the Honda S2000 to the waiting air ambulance after the road accident at Dunford Road, Holmfirth

She said: “The power had to be turned off to allow the emergency services and our engineers to work safely.

“One of the posts broke at the base and that led to cables being snapped and lying in the road.

“This did result in the power supply being isolated to 13 of our customers and they are expected to be without power until 8pm while they carry out repairs to the overhead cables.”