Air ambulance airlifts Tickhill crash victim to hospital

AN elderly woman was airlifted to hospital by the Yorkshire Air Ambulance after suffering life-threatening injuries in a car crash in Tickhill, Rotherham.

The 72-year-old, from Maltby, was in the back of a silver Ford Focus which careered off the road and hit a tree in Sunderland Street, Tickhill, just before 11am yesterday,

The driver, a Maltby woman, and two other passengers escaped uninjured but paramedics were called to help the injured woman.

She was flown to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.

Anyone with information is being urged to contact South Yorkshire Police's Accident Witness Helpline on 0114 220 2970.