Cyclist airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after Cheshire crash

A cyclist has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a crash with a van.

Emergency services were called to the A535 Macclesfield Road in the Jodrell Bank area at 10.38am on Wednesday (March 29).

Police said the cyclist, a man in his 30s, had ‘come off his bike’ and collided with the van. He has been taken to North Staffordshire University Hospital with ‘serious’ injuries to his ‘lower body’.

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A spokesperson for Cheshire Constabulary said: “At 10.38am March 29, police were called to a collision on Macclesfield Road, Jodrell Bank.

“A cyclist had come off his bike and collided with a van. The cyclist, a man in his 30s, was taken by air ambulance to hospital with injuries which are believed to be serious.”

A spokesperson for North West Ambulance Service said they sent an ambulance, rapid response vehicle and the air ambulance to the scene of the incident.

They added: “We took the patient by air ambulance to hospital with serious lower body injuries.”

The road was closed while emergency services worked at the scene of the collision. It reopened after midday.

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