Friday 25 December 2015

a women died after car crash in kent coffe shop

staff correspondent,London(wp/es): A woman has died and four people have been left seriously injured after a car smashed through the window of a Costa Coffee shop in Kent. Emergency services were scrambled to the coffee shop in The Green, Westerham, after a car came off the road and ploughed through the window on Thursday morning. A South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) spokesman said more than a dozen ambulances attended the scene at 10.32am, along with critical care paramedics and the hazardous area response team. The spokesman added: "Our clinicians treated six patients in total, including one patient - a woman - who was sadly pronounced as deceased at the scene. "Five further patients were treated at the scene and then taken to hospital." A man and a woman have been taken to St George's Hospital, Tooting, with serious injuries and another two patients - also a man and a woman with serious injuries - have been taken to Princess Royal Hospital in Farnborough. A fifth patient, a female, has been taken to Pembury Hospital with minor injuries. A Secamb spokesman added: "Our thoughts are with all those involved in and affected by this very sad incident. "Our colleagues at Kent Police have set up a witness centre at The Grasshopper pub in The Green, Westerham and anyone with information is asked to visit the centre and speak to officers."

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