Bravery award for NHS worker after M6 crash

An off-duty NHS worker who stopped to help when two people were thrown from a motorbike on a motorway has been awarded for her bravery.

Amanda Field, a senior radiography assistant at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, saw the motorbike lose control and hit the central reservation on the M6 in Staffordshire.

Field, who received a Royal Humane Society award, pulled over on the hard shoulder and signalled for traffic to stop before providing urgent first aid, her NHS trust employer said.

The award acknowledged her bravery "regardless of the significant dangers of the live fast lane".

Field was on her way to visit family in Manchester when she saw the crash.

A spokesperson for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said she drew on 15 years of experience and clinical training, "remaining calm under immense pressure".

"Amanda calmly took charge of the situation by giving clear instructions to bystanders of how to help, while she assessed and treated the injured passenger, before moving on to perform CPR on the injured rider," they said.

Field said she was more nervous about accepting the award than "doing what would come natural to me to help others".

"This incident will stay with me forever as we take for granted at work, should an emergency arise, that back-up help is always on hand," she said.

"I feel quite proud of how I handled it at the time," she said, adding that she would help out again if another emergency arose.

Marisa Roberson, from the Alexandra Hospital, said they were "incredibly proud" of having her as part of their caring team.

"This was an extraordinary act of bravery and compassion," she said.

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