A PENSIONER was pulled from an upside-down car near Cirencester after the driver is believed to have had a blackout at the wheel

At 4pm yesterday the ambulance service was called to the incident on the B4425 outside Barnsley where a car containing four people had left the off the road and landed in a ditch.

Three of the occupants had managed to crawl out of the car but the 71-year-old woman was trapped by her seatbelt and could not move.

Two fire crews rushed to the scene and were able to rescue the woman.

She told them she had cried out to the driver that they were going to crash as they were coming out of Barnsley’s 30mph zone on the way to Cirencester.

The road was closed for two hours while an air ambulance was deployed.

When it arrived, paramedics realised the woman’s injuries were not as bad as first suspected so the car's occupants were taken by ambulance to Great Western Hospital.

Their injuries are described as minor and non-life threatening, but the driver was kept at hospital overnight for tests.

A police spokesman said: “Police closed the road for two hours while emergency services worked.

“Fortunately the accident was just outside a 30mph zone so the car was not travelling very fast when it left the road.”