Woman seriously injured in Reading town centre fall
IDR closed as emergency services attended victim
A woman in her thirties has been taken to hospital with multiple injuries after falling onto the IDR at Chatham Street roundabout this lunchtime.
Police confirmed they were called at 1.30pm to a fear for welfare incident.
The road was closed and traffic diverted as emergency paramedics tried to help her.
South Central Ambulance said:
"We received multiple 999 calls shortly before 13:30 all reporting witnessing an adult female fall from the A329 Inner Distribution Road in Reading. We sent two ambulances, a paramedic team leader in a rapid response vehicle and the Thames Valley Air Ambulance helicopter and emergency response vehicle to the scene.
"The patient, a female aged approximately 30-years-old, had sustained multiple injuries and following treatment at the scene, was taken by road to the major trauma centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, in a life-threatening condition."
The JRH is used when a patient has a major head injury.