Firefighters used hydraulic cutting equipment to free an 87-year-old man who rolled his car onto its roof at a notorious crossroads in Bedminster on Saturday.
The octogenarian was freed by crews from Bedminster, Temple and Avonmouth at what turned into a major exercise for all three emergency services.
The man was driving a silver hatchback car at the junction of Bedminster Road and Marksbury Road when he was involved in what was thought to be a single vehicle crash outside Marksbury Road library.
The at the crossroads of Shepton Walk, Bedminster Road and Marksbury Road.
Ambulance crews requested firefighters attend and a spokesperson for Avon Fire and Rescue service said they extricated the man using hydraulic cutting equipment and passed him over to the care of the South Western Ambulance Service.
A spokesperson for the ambulance service said the 87-year-old, was taken to hospital.
“We were called at 4.27pm on Saturday to an RTC at this location, (which was) a car rolled over.
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“We allocated one road ambulance, one operations officer and our Hazard Response Team.
“One adult male casualty was taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary emergency department by road ambulance,” he added.
Bristol Live has asked for an update on the condition of the man involved in the crash, and is awaiting a response.
Local residents living near this junction said it has seen many crashes in recent years.
Back in September last year, five people were injured in a three-car crash on Bedminster Road at the junction with Marksbury Road.
That incident prompted Jamie Barry, the headteacher of the nearby Parson Street Primary School, to call for something to be done to make the road safer.
In December 2017, a 74-year-old man was left with life-threatening injuries when he was walking on the pavement at the junction of Bedminster Road and Marksbury Road and was hit and thrown into a garden fence by a car which was being driven along Bedminster Road when it was struck by another car being driven out of Marksbury Road.
