A MOTORCYCLIST was taken to hospital with critical injuries after a crash in Oldbury.

West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to reports of a collision involving a car and the biker on Regent Road in Tividale, at 7.42am (Monday).

An ambulance, paramedic officer, critical care car with an advanced paramedic on board and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford with a BASICS doctor on board attended the scene.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “Ambulance staff arrived to find a man, the motorcyclist, in a critical condition. They worked as a team to administer advanced trauma care on scene before the man was taken by land ambulance on blue lights to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham for further emergency care.”