Biker badly hurt in smash
A BIKER was airlifted to the major trauma centre at Aintree after a collision on Daresbury Expressway in Runcorn.
Cheshire police said the crash involved a motorbike and a grey Audi.
It happened on the eastbound carriageway close to the exit from the Mersey Gateway bridge.
The North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) said it deployed a road ambulance, an advanced paramedic and an air ambulance.
Police received reports of the smash at around 10.40am on Tuesday, February 25, and traffic police were dispatched to install a cordon.
This allowed the helicopter to land and take off with the patient, a man in his early 30s.
A Cheshire Constabulary spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the casualty’s injuries were ‘not life-threatening’.
The road was shut while emergency services dealt with the incident.
When the Weekly News visited the scene, there was little left of the Audi A5’s smashed read window.
A NWAS spokeswoman said: “We were called at 10.39am this morning, we attended with an ambulance, advanced paramedic, and air ambulance.
“We took a patient to hospital by air ambulance.
“They were taken to a major trauma centre with serious injuries.”
Speaking on Tuesday, the police spokeswoman said: At around 10.40am officers were called to reports of a collision involving a motorcycle and a grey Audi on the Daresbury Expressway just off the Mersey Gateway Bridge.
“A man has been taken to Aintree Hospital.”
The collision happened on the wide multi-lane part of Daresbury Expressway and not the narrow section where a recent fatal collision occurred in January.