A MAN was taken to hospital with abdominal and shoulder pains following a car crash in Kidderminster.

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the junction of the A449 and Park Gate Road following the two-car crash shortly after 8.10pm yesterday evening.

An ambulance service spokesman said: “All the cars’ occupants were out of their vehicles except for a man in his forties.

“He was freed from his car, was immobilised with the use of a scoop stretcher and neck collar, was given pain relief and was taken by land ambulance to Worcestershire Royal Hospital.”