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Huge emergency service response at The Panorama in Park Street, Ashford

A woman is being treated in a London hospital following a crash in an underground car park at a nine-storey building.

Multiple police cars and paramedics were called to The Panorama – previously known as Charter House – in Ashford town centre just before 11am.

Police and ambulance crews outside The Panorama in Ashford. Picture: Steve Salter
Police and ambulance crews outside The Panorama in Ashford. Picture: Steve Salter
Emergency services were called to the underground car park beneath The Panorama
Emergency services were called to the underground car park beneath The Panorama

Officers say the incident, which happened beneath the landmark former office block, involved two cars.

Paramedics treated a woman in the car park before she was taken by road to King’s College Hospital in London.

The air ambulance service sent a 'rapid response vehicle' to the scene.

The vehicle, a red Volvo, is used when a helicopter is not available or cannot fly because of the weather.

It carries the same equipment and clinical team - a specialist doctor and paramedic - as the helicopter, but cannot transport patients.

Paramedics joined police at the scene. Picture: Steve Salter
Paramedics joined police at the scene. Picture: Steve Salter
A 'rapid response vehicle' from the air ambulance service attended the incident in Park Street
A 'rapid response vehicle' from the air ambulance service attended the incident in Park Street

The woman was taken to King’s College by South East Coast Ambulance Service.

The Panorama, which first opened as an office block in 1975, was converted into more than 200 flats in the mid-2010s.

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