Police officer gets head trapped under parked car

A police officer on a night out with colleagues was injured after falling down steps outside a pub. The off-duty officer slipped trying to navigate steps at the Inn on the Wharf, Manchester Road, Burnley. He landed face first and ended up with his head wedged underneath a parked car.

A team of firefighters who came to his rescue have been hailed ‘superheroes’, after lifting the one-tonne Ford KA from the stricken officer. The officer, who has not been named, was taken to the Royal Preston Hospital by paramedics.



Burnley fire crew manager Andy Coulton said the officer, in his 40s, was conscious when they arrived, but then passed out soon after and was bleeding from a head wound. Around five firefighters lifted the car and rolled it backwards to enable paramedics to treat the officer.

Mr Coulton said: “We had to get him out quickly so we used brute force to lift the car. It was a bit like superheroes. It was a very strange job. The car was in the pub car park at the bottom of the steps so he must have fallen over and his momentum slid him underneath. He had definitely been drinking. Quite a lot of his colleagues were gathered round concerned for him.”