Four people hospitalised after car crashes into house

Ambulances, an air ambulance, police and the fire service attended the scene.

The incident took place at around 9am on Sunday, October 30 on Vicarage Street in Warminster.

Four people were involved in the incident in which the car collided headfirst into a house in Warminster. In photos, the car can be seen to be badly damaged at the front.

Four ambulances as well as a Dorset and Somerset air ambulance and a rapid response vehicle attended the scene.

“A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 09:01hrs on Sunday 29 October to a road traffic incident on Vicarage Street, Warminster.

“We sent four double-crewed land ambulances, a rapid response vehicle, and one air ambulance and we conveyed four patients by land ambulance to Salisbury District Hospital.”

A spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We were called to Vicarage Street, Warminster at 9.08am yesterday (29 October) after reports that a car had crashed into a house."Three fire crews attended, from Warminster, Westbury and Frome, together with the heavy rescue unit from Trowbridge with a support vehicle.

"The car had collided with a lamppost and a house, but the four people inside walked to safety and were in the care of the ambulance service.

"Following an assessment of the building damage, there was no requirement for us to do any shoring up, so our stop was at 10.06am and we had left the scene by 10.45am.

A spokesperson for Wiltshire Police said: “We were called by the ambulance service shortly after 9am yesterday to a report that a car had crashed into a house in Vicarage Road, Warminster. Fire and ambulance were in attendance. Four people inside the vehicle believed to have been injured.”