Bryan Ferry's son 'critical' after head-on Shropshire crash

The 24-year-old was taken to a major trauma centre after being trapped in the wreckage of his car for about an hour following the crash involving his Volvo saloon and a Mercedes.

His father, Bryan ferry is believed to be at his hospital bedside in Birmingham with the rest of his family.

His brother Otis, who is master of the South Shropshire Hunt, thanked firefighters for freeing his brother from his badly damaged vehicle.

The two car crash happened on Monday at about 6.30pm on the A458 about half a mile to the north west of Cressage.

Merlin, suffered multiple fractures to his legs, pelvis, left arm and had a head injury. Firefighters worked at the scene with paramedics for around an hour to release him from the wreckage of his vehicle.

He was assessed at the scene and had splints put in place along with advanced pain relief before being taken on blue lights to the Major Trauma Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. The trauma doctor travelled with him.

The driver of the second car had managed to get out of his vehicle. It suffered a small fire but a member of the public used a fire extinguisher to put it out.

The 49-year-old man from Kidderminster, suffered minor injuries, but due to the level of damage to the vehicles, was taken to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for precautionary checks.

Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident or the circumstances leading up to it to come forward by calling 101, quoting incident 573 of 22 December.

This was the scene from the #A458 Nr Cressage where firefighters worked alongside ambulance crews to free 1 casualty pic.twitter.com/8DoFgqbb8n https://twitter.com/SFRSWellington/status/547160556537671681

@SFRSWellington thank you for extracting my Brother alive from what looks like a mangled box of tin. We are all continuing to pray https://twitter.com/otis_ferry/status/547337599430721536