A motorcyclist involved in a collision with a car required advanced trauma care by ambulance staff last night.

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the Birmingham Road in Rowley Regis shortly after 7.30pm on Sunday evening. An ambulance, a paramedic area support officer and a MERIT trauma doctor attended the scene.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Upon arrival ambulance staff found a motorcyclist, a man, unconscious with multiple serious injuries.

“The man required advanced trauma care by ambulance staff and the doctor at the scene in order to stabilise his condition before he was taken by land ambulance on blue lights to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham; the doctor travelled in the ambulance to continue treatment en route.”