Driver runs off after three-car pile-up

This was the scene of the wreckage following a three-car crash in Tipton.

An elderly woman was taken to hospital and one of the drivers fled the scene after the smash in Toll End Road.

Emergency services were called at 2.30am on Saturday and the road remained closed until around 11am while police investigated. The crash involved a red Renault Megane and a black Ford Fiesta. A Renault Clio was also caught up in the aftermath.

The driver of the Megane left the scene and his passenger was taken to Sandwell General Hospital with suspected spinal injuries. The elderly woman, who was in the Fiesta, had to be cut free from the car by firefighters from Tipton and Wednesbury.

Tipton crew commander Andy Bailey said: "She was taken to hospital as a precaution on account of her age.

"The man and woman in the Clio did not require hospital treatment."

In a separate incident on the outskirts of Wolverhampton, a female driver was taken to hospital after slamming her car into a lamp post.

The woman, in her early 20s, crashed the Citroen C2 on the Wergs Road, near Tettenhall, at about 11.30 last night.

Fire crews, police and ambulance attended although the woman escaped with minor injuries. She was taken to New Cross Hospital as a precaution. Police are investigating.

Meanwhile, four people were taken to hospital following a smash at 2.45am yesterday in Church Road, Sheldon, involving a car and a taxi. Two men and two women were taken to hospital.

West Midlands Fire Service said the women had to be freed from the car.

Also one person has been taken to hospital with head and facial injuries following a two car-crash in Birmingham today. A Citroen Saxo and Mini Cooper collided in Fort Parkway, Castle Vale in the early hours of this morning.