Trapped passenger cut free from wreckage (From Warrington Guardian)

Trapped passenger cut free from wreckage

FIREFIGHTERS used cutting gear to free a young man trapped upside down in his car.

The driver had a lucky escape after the car left the road at the junction of Park Lane and Tunstall Road and crashed through a bridge and onto a country path.

The car ended up on its roof on the Biddulph Valley at Knypersley just after midnight on Friday morning.

The two passengers, also young men, suffered cuts and bruises, and called the emergency services on mobile phones.

The fire service said the car crashed through the bridge parapet, made of wire mesh and railings, onto the path 10 feet below.

The Biddulph Valley Way is a former railway line which has been turned into a popular walking route.

The passenger side of the car was squashed flat, and firefighters removed the driver's door before releasing the trapped driver.

He was placed on a spine board and then taken by ambulance to North Staffordshire Hospital.

The three men who were in the car are believed to come from Biddulph.