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Adam Maidment

Emergency services called to busy Stockport road after person suffers 'medical emergency' on bus

Emergency services responded to reports of a person suffering a medical emergency on a bus in Stockport this afternoon.

North West Ambulance Service received a 999 call just after 12pm today (March 8) of reports of an incident on a bus on Wellington Road/A6, near to Stockport Bus Station.

Three ambulances and an air ambulance were dispatched to the scene.

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Greater Manchester Police were also in attendance.

One eye-witness at the scene said they saw a large emergency services presence near a double-decker bus which had been parked up at the side of the road.

Police at the scene (Manchester Evening News)

"All we saw was the air ambulance landing in the fields behind the A6 at around 12.15pm," Carole, who asked just to be referred to by her first name, told the M.E.N.

"There are about four police vans, parked up at the temporary bus station. There are also around three ambulances and a tactical response vehicle too.

"It’s right opposite where Debenhams used to be on the A6, near the junction with Heaton Lane.”

Emergency services were in attendance until around 4pm. The condition of the patient is not yet known.

Police at the scene in Stockport (Manchester Evening News)

In a statement, a NWAS spokesperson said: “We have responded to a patient who suffered a medical emergency on a bus, with a 999 call made at 12.04.

"Three ambulances, a response vehicle and an air ambulance attended the scene."

Greater Manchester Police have not yet provided a comment.

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