Doctors to overhaul car wreck rescue techniques amid new evidence

Firefighters trained in movement minimisation since 1980s but method can be time consuming and cost lives

• I feel disorientated': replicating a real car crash to research rescue techniques

There are plans for a major overhaul of how people are rescued from car wrecks amid growing evidence that current methods where people wait to be cut free may be harmful.

Last year there were 127,967 casualties and 1,560 deaths in England caused by motor vehicle collisions. During the same period, more than 7,000 patients needed to helped out of the vehicle through a process known as extrication, where rescue crews use Jaws of Life" and other tools to pry apart the wreckage, and then carefully lift people out.