AN air ambulance landed near to the A448 Bromsgrove to Redditch highway this morning, to tend to a pedestrian with multiple serious injuries underneath a bridge.

West Midlands Ambulance Service received the first call to reports of a man lying on the roadway at 8.42am (on July 24).

A rapid response vehicle was dispatched to the scene alongside a land ambulance and Midlands Air Ambulance from Warwickshire.

The aircraft landed on a golf course next to the main road.

West Mercia Police warned drivers to avoid the area while road blocks were in place on both directions of the road at Batchley island and Clover Leaf junction. The stretch was reopened at around 11am.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said a man in his 30s suffered multiple serious injuries to his head, chest, legs and pelvis, and is now receiving treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

An eye witness, who didn’t want to be named, said: “I was driving along the road at the time when everything came to a screeching halt. I almost went into the back of a lorry I had to slam on my brakes so hard.

“Lots of people were getting out of their car running toward the underneath of the bridge. It was shocking.”

Another observer Rebecca Davis said: "I passed this on the way to work but was driving on the opposite side of the road to where it happened.

"At first it looked like just a bin bag or something that had fallen down, the way it landed, but as soon as I realised it was a person I stopped and rang an ambulance straight away."