A BUSY city road leading to the M5 was closed due to a "serious" crash last night.

A woman was taken to hospital with serious abdominal injuries, according to a West Mercia Police spokesman, although the police do not believe the injuries are life-threatening.

The woman was trapped for 40 minutes in the wreckage and was carried to an ambulance on a stretcher and then to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

The crash at 8.21pm last night between a lorry and a car on the A4538 Pershore Lane near M5 junction six saw both sides of the road closed and a woman was "severely trapped."

The trapped woman was eventually freed by the fire service and taken to hospital by ambulance.

The road was closed from Crowle Island to Sixways Roundabout.

Police left the scene at 4.30am and the road was then re-opened.

A Hereford and Worcester Fire Service tweet said: "@HWFireWorcs and @HWFireDroitwich attended RTC Pershore Lane #Worcester. @OFFICIALWMAS and @WMerciaPolice also attended."

A paramedic and BASICS doctor responded to the crash in a car from the Strensham Air Ambulance base along with an ambulance, a paramedic officer and a MERIT trauma doctor.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “When emergency services arrived they found a car which had sustained significant damage following a collision with a lorry.

"The driver of the car, a woman, was trapped in the wreckage but was fully conscious.

"Whilst ambulance staff and the doctors worked to assess the woman, the fire service worked carefully around them to release her from the car. "Medics administered advanced pain relief to the woman, as she had sustained pain in her arms and abdomen, to help stabilise her condition during the extrication process.

“After around 40 minutes, the woman was cut free by the fire service.

"She was carefully lifted out of the wreckage and immobilised onto a scoop stretcher before being taken by land ambulance on blue lights to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

“No one else was injured in the collision.”

Anyone with information, contact police on 101 quoting incident number 653s of January 24.