Schoolgirl suffers head injuries in crash
A schoolgirl suffered series head injuries and a passenger had to be cut free from the wreckage of a separate crash during a series of weekend road accidents in the Black Country and Staffordshire.
A schoolgirl suffered series head injuries and a passenger had to be cut free from the wreckage of a separate crash during a series of weekend road accidents in the Black Country and Staffordshire.
The schoolgirl, believed to be 13 years old, was knocked down by a car in Haden Hill Road, Halesowen, yesterday afternoon. The road was shut for several hours.
Residents said the girl had been walking with her mother moments before the accident at around 2.30pm. They said the girl was thrown into the air from the impact of the collision.
She was rushed to Birmingham Children Hospital after being treated by paramedics at the scene.
Paramedics in two ambulances and a Central Accident Resuscitation Emergency (CARE) team from West Midlands Ambulance Service were called to help the youngster.
One resident, who did not want to be named, said police had descended on the road in the minutes following the crash.
"I was amazed by the number down there. It looked very serious and I think they tried to get her to hospital as quick as possible, she said.
"The road had been shut for at least three hours. It is a 40 mph limit down here yet it is 30 just up the road. Cars do speed along here." West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman Suzie Fothergill said the girl was treated at the scene for a serious head injury and a doctor was put on alert to await her arrival at hospital.
Meanwhile, in Rugeley, a passenger was trapped inside a car following a two-vehicle smash on Saturday night.
The collision, in Western Springs Road, involved a Vauxhall Vectra and a Skoda saloon.
Crews from the Stafford, Abbot's Bromley and Rugeley were called to the scene at around 6pm.
The southbound carriageway was closed for an hour while they used specialist cutting equipment to free the passenger in the Skoda. The passenger and Skoda driver were then taken to Stafford Hospital by ambulance.
Their injuries are not understood to be life threatening.
The driver of the Vauxhall was uninjured.
Later, in the early hours of Sunday morning, two car crashes happened within an hour of each other on the same stretch of road in Dudley.
In one crash, a car had struck a garden wall finishing half on the pavement and halp off.
And just minutes later a black Lexus hit a wall near a row of shops.
The crashes happened between 1am and 2am yesterday in Stourbridge Road, Brierley Hill.
Fire crews said no-one was injured and police were investigating both incidents.
