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Trident Centre Car Park, High Street, Dudley

D-EXP/P/A51/51 23 Nov 1978 Wolverhampton Archives

Striking paramedics deserted their picket lines to assist after a woman was injured in a car accident. The photograph shows a woman being loaded into an ambulance, who was later taken to Guest Hospital, Dudley. Tipton ambulance service is also mentioned.

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Crash, Walsall

D-EXP/P/A51/294 undated Wolverhampton Archives

The photograph shows a crashed car being lifted into the back of a recovery truck.

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Stafford Road, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/W1S/67 30 Nov 1970 Wolverhampton Archives

A ton of bricks fell from a high wall onto a car, causing it to veer into a wooden fence and trapping the driver. An arrow on the photograph indicates where the bricks fell from.

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Accident, Penn Road, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/A51/171 3 Jan 1990 Wolverhampton Archives

Two suspended Wolverhampton paramedics left the picket line to help a pedestrian, Wayne Merrick, who had was unconscious after being knowcked down by a car, and took him to the Royal Hospital. The photograph shows Trevor Ford (right) and David White.

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West Bromwich Expressway

D-EXP/P/W4/3 31 Aug 1978 Wolverhampton Archives

Chain-link fencing was being erected after the death of a four-year-old girl who stepped off the verge in front of a car. Dartmouth Park is mentioned. The photograph shows John Cotton (left) and Joe Stevens of Sandwell Council putting up the fencing.

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Dudley Road, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/W1D/29 22 Jun 1968 Wolverhampton Archives

The junction with Napier Road, where a car had crashed into the C. H. Brown butcher’s shop, killing two people.

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John Law, General Hospital, Walsall

D-EXP/P/H71/16 19 May 1977 Wolverhampton Archives

John had been unconscious in a coma for 40 days, following a car accident on the M6 on Easter Sunday, and his family tried to revive him by holding a birthday party at his bedside. Shaun Murray, Dean Smith, Alan Law of St Edwards Road in Selly Oak, Gladys

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Staffordshire ambulance workers

D-EXP/P/A51/194 4 Mar 1990 Wolverhampton Archives

Paramedics from across Staffordshire returned to full-time work without waiting for the results of a national ballot, and the first call for Nigel Purnell (front left) and Trevor Jones (front right) from Cannock was to motorist Ian Davenport, who was inju

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West Midlands Air Ambulance, RAF Cosford

D-EXP/P/A51/224 28 Jul 1992 Wolverhampton Archives

Joan Ash of Ravenhill Drive, Codsall, visited the air ambulance service after they rescued her from her car after a crash on the A449 at Coven, as part of a fundraising drive. The West Midlands Regional Health Authority is mentioned. The photograph shows

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Friar Park, West Bromwich

D-EXP/P/W4/1 5 Aug 1972 Wolverhampton Archives

A petition demanding action to curb parking was due to be handed to the town council after a car hit Darren Burns of Bassett Road near Crankhall Lane post office, causing him to fall into a coma. The West Bromwich and District Hospital, the Midland Centre