Published: January 19, 2012
by GEORGIA GRAHAM

A PARAMEDIC on his way to help a woman  who had been hit by a bus collided with a taxi before his motorbike burst into flames.

The rider was thrown from his seat on one of the busiest stretches of Euston Road on Saturday at 5.30pm.

Bliss Moore, 20, who immediately called an ambulance, was waiting outside the nearby Wellcome Trust when she saw the crash and rushed over to the injured paramedic.

She said: “I was standing outside the centre with my little sister and her friend, and I had just told them to stand right back because it is a really busy road, and then it happened.

“It was a really loud bang and we saw the taxi out in the middle of the road and the bike on the floor. He must have been thrown about 10 feet from the bike and was lying on the floor. I was just talking to him.”

Ms Moore added: “He was really amazing, even though he was badly injured the first thing he said was telling us to get in touch with the Ambulance Service and tell them who he was, where he was going and to make sure that someone else went instead of him – he was speaking in the ambulance codes, really he was so amazing thinking of other people when that had just happened.”

A police car arrived within minutes, blocking off the road and Ms Moore stayed with the paramedic until an ambulance arrived shortly after.

The paramedic suffered injuries to his pelvis, arm and wrist but has since been discharged from hospital.

A woman in her 40s, who the paramedic was on his way to help in Tottenham Court Road, was taken to St Mary’s hospital by another ambulance which arrived within five minutes of being called. She remains in hospital in a serious condition.

A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “One of our motorcycle responders was involved in a collision while on the way to an emergency call on Saturday.

“He was on his way to an incident at Warren Street Underground Station, when he collided with a car on Euston Road just after 5.30pm.

“Another ambulance crew, a single responder in a car and London’s air ambulance team in a car were sent to the original call, where a woman in her 40s had been hit by a bus.”

A police spokeswoman said officers were called to Euston Road at 5.45pm and traffic officers are investigating the incident. No arrests have been made.