A MAN was flown to hospital after accidentally cutting his throat with a power tool, his family have said.

The Welsh Ambulance Service was called shortly before 1.30pm on Friday to reports that a man had sustained an injury at a property in Rhosymedre.

A pair of air ambulances landed on a football field off Church Street and an emergency ambulance was also sent to the village, following which the man was airlifted to hospital in Stoke.

Amy Truby, aged 84, of Brook Street, told the Leader the man is her grandson Lewis Truby and that he had accidentally cut his throat and arm with an angle grinder while working on his car.

Remarkably Mrs Truby said her grandson's mother Sharon, an A&E nurse, was informed of the situation and arrived in time to give life-saving support to her 25-year-old son until paramedics arrived.

She said: "His mum came and saw to him before the air ambulance got here to try and stop all the bleeding - she saved his life.

"I wasn't here at the time, I came back from having my hair cut and thought what's all this mess?

"He has been very lucky. If it had gone another eighth of an inch it would have cut his windpipe.

"He is stable but it will be a long job. He has to have a lot of operations. It broke his jaw as well. He is doing as well as can be expected."

Mr Truby's friend Nathan Jones told the Leader: "What we have been told is that he was cutting a pipe off an exhaust on the car. He had a kickback from the grinder and it cut his throat very deep. It cut him to the bone on his arm but apparently he has missed every vital organ.

"He was going to work on my bus that afternoon but his fiancee text me. At the end of the day he is here so something has kept him here."

He added he had been told Mr Truby had run into the house to find a towel to stem the bleeding before going to a neighbour's house where he was met by a friend.

A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance service said: "We sent an emergency ambulance and two Wales Air Ambulances to the scene, and a man was airlifted to hospital in Stoke with serious injuries.

North Wales Police assisted emergency crews at the scene or the medical emergency.

Cefn councillor Derek Wright told the Leader: "I was in house and heard a helicopter. I saw it land on the field and went over. Two paramedics were getting out and they got in a van and drove down Church Street to Brook Street, where there was a man on the floor.

"He looked in a bad way. I didn't want to interfere so I came home but then I heard an ambulance and then a second helicopter landed.

"I was told it only took seven minutes for the second helicopter to get from Caernarfon to here with a doctor on board, quicker than a car could get here from Wrexham hospital, how good is this service?"