A MAN has been air lifted to hospital after getting his legs caught under a dumper truck on Abergele Road.

Welsh Ambulance and North Wales Fire and Rescue Services attended the scene at about 1pm today after receiving reports of an incident on Abergele Road, Old Colwyn.

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called Today (December 3, 2018) at approximately 1pm to reports of an incident on Abergele Road, Old Colwyn, Colwyn Bay.

"We responded with an Air Ambulance. One patient was transported to Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor.”

Fire and Rescue Services sent one pump truck from their Colwyn Bay station to the incident and had a technical rescue team on route from Wrexham, but this was was stood down.