Firefighters battle to cut 18-year-old from car on A34

According to Lee Glover, the manager of Blue Watch at Newbury fire station, one fire engine from Newbury Fire Station and another from Hungerford - a total ten firefighters - were called at 5.34am to the A34 northbound between East and West Ilsley, to an incident involving a silver Peugot 206 and a lorry.
Fire crews used cutting equipment to remove the driver’s door and release the 18-year-old driver from the car, who was then placed on a spinal board and taken to hospital with suspected head and shoulder injuries.
“It’s thought the spray (rain) from the lorry wheels blinded the driver (his windscreen), it was hammering down with rain,” said Mr Glover, who added the car then veered off the carriageway and up a roadside embankment, before returning back down the embankment, onto the A34.
Ngoze Fakaye of South Central Ambulance Service confirmed an ambulance and rapid response car were sent to the incident at 5.30am, following which an 18-year-old male was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with head injuries.
One lane of the A34 was closed during the incident, which was closed an hour later.
UPDATE 9.50AM
The Highways Agency has warned of bad driving conditions, due to heavy rain and slow moving traffic on the A34 southbound near East Ilsley, at the M4 intersection.