Woman rescued by family member after suffering head injury in Staffordshire canal fall
A pensioner was anaesthetised after falling into a canal whilst operating a lock in Stone this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to Limekiln Lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Stone at 9am.
West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman Jamie Arrowsmith said: "Crews arrived to a find a woman in her 70s who was out of the water on arrival.
"It is believed she had slipped whilst opening a lock gate, hitting her head and back on the ground before falling approximately ten feet into the lock itself.
"She had been rescued from the water by a family member and two bystanders."
It is thought she was in the water for about two minutes.
Paramedics treated the woman for a reduced level of consciousness and a back injury.
She was anaesthetised at the scene before being taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital for further assessment.
