Incident
Road traffic collision
Date
4.45pm - 06 December 2021
Last updated
6.36pm - 06 December 2021
Status
Closed
Incident type
Large vehicle
Location
Kingsteignton
Attending station
Torquay
Newton Abbot
Teignmouth
Middlemoor
Fire control received a call from Ambulance to make us aware of an RTC at the above location that involved a lorry and at least 3 other vehicles
Control immediately mobilised 3 fire engines coming from Newton Abbot, Torquay and Teignmouth as well as the Heavy Rescue Unit form Middlemoor.
Once in attendance crews confirmed an RTC involving 1 lorry and 3 cars with the driver still within the lorry, crews got to work making the vehicles safe and formulating a plan to extricate the lorry driver.
Crews successfully extricated the driver using Hydraulic Rescue Equipment, Small Tools and Stabilisation equipment.
The driver was left in the hands of the on scene Paramedics.