A woman has been left fighting for her life after being hit by a van on a golf course in Sutton Coldfield.
Paramedics were called at 10.26am to reports a pedestrian had been critically injured after being run down at Aston Wood Golf Club, north of Birmingham.
She was taken by air ambulance to the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital where she is said to be in a life-threatening condition.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it deployed two ambulances, two paramedic officers, a trauma doctor, critical care paramedic and an air ambulance to the scene.
A spokesman said: ‘Upon arrival we found a woman who was the pedestrian with life-threatening injuries in a critical condition.
‘Ambulance staff quickly began administering advanced life support and advanced trauma care to her at the scene which continued en route to Queen Elizabeth Hospital where she was conveyed via air ambulance for further treatment.
‘No further patients required treatment.’
Police cars were seen rushing to the golf course near Sutton Coldfield after the woman was injured on Friday morning
Tom, a butcher at nearby Pat’s Butchers, told Metro: ‘We saw all the commotion.
‘A black van came racing through our car park then went up Clarence Road, he managed to turn himself around and shot up Rosemary Hill Road.
‘He spun around on one of the back streets and then went down to the golf course.
‘Good job no one was in our car park or they would have been mowed down.’
One woman, who was waiting Blake Street train station at around 10.30am, said she heard someone shouting for ‘help’ from the golf club.
Another local shop worker told Metro: ‘All we saw was the police cars, ambulances and unmarked cars whizzing around the area.
‘You can hear the police helicopter but police presence on the road had all gone within an hour.’
Aston Wood Golf Course is an 18-hole championship course, which claims to be ‘one of the finest golf courses in the Midlands’
