FAMILY and friends are mourning the loss of a ‘happy-go-lucky’ 24-year-old Ross-on-Wye man who died following a car crash on the A49 near Hereford on Friday.

Ian Wemyss, known throughout the Forest of Dean, sustained a serious head injury and a pelvic injury after a grey Mercedes was in collision with a white Ford Fiesta outside the Pilgrim Hotel on the Ross Road in Much Birch at around 9.20pm on November 6.

Ambulance staff and firefighters quickly pulled Mr Wemyss from the wreckage as a quick assessment found he was unconscious and in need of immediate medical help.

He was transferred to the back of the ambulance so that medics could begin treating him before arriving at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

Two doctors jumped on board the ambulance taking him to hospital to provide advanced trauma care along the way.

However, Mr Wemyss died in hospital on Monday (November 10).

Alma Small, founder of Mandarin Stone based in Monmouth where Mr Wemyss worked, said: “I actually interviewed Ian in April last year for the position that he held within Mandarin Stone.

"It is a tragic loss of life for ‘a happy-go-lucky’ 24-year-old.”

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