Passenger badly hurt in car smash

A passenger was flung from a car which overturned as it crashed into the garden of a home in the Black Country, demolishing a tree today.

The driver fled the scene of the crash leaving the passenger, a man in his late teens or early 20s, injured in the drive.I t happened on the A451 Norton Road at Stourbridge which was closed for about four hours, causing queues stretching back to the town centre.

Police are now trying to trace the driver. Neighbours rushed to help the injured man after the silver Volkswagen Golf overturned near the Greyhound pub at about 5.15 am.

A wall in the garden was knocked down and the 30ft tall conifer tree fell on a car in the front drive. The passenger suffered internal injuries and a serious blow to the head but was conscious when being treated.