Vehicle ploughs into house in crash drama

A driver smashed through a garden wall and into a house in the Black Country during a weekend of drama on the roads.

A family today spoke after a Peugeot 307 smashed through the garden wall of their Wolverhampton home.

Police and fire crews were called to the house in Caledonia Road, All Saints.

Alan Evans, aged 56, had been enjoying an evening out when his niece phoned him to tell him about the crash. Both the driver and a male passenger avoided serious injury. He said:

"I had been to Sedgley Working Men's Club. My niece phoned me and when I came home the car was embedded in the front corner of the house."

The family has been left unable to run baths or showers because their main water pipe has been damaged in the crash, which happened at around 9pm on Saturday. His son, Lee Evans, aged 25, had been enjoying a night out in Wolverhampton city centre at the time of the crash.

He said: "If anybody had been out of the house at the time, they could have been killed."

His brother Richard, 28, said it was the second crash on the road in two weeks, after a car hit a lamp post and telephone poles.

A man was arrested at the scene in connection with Saturday's accident.

In a separate crash on Saturday, two teenage boys suffered serious injuries after their car left an Oldbury road and collided with a wall. It happened on Worcester Road, near the Brandhall Golf Club, at 3.15pm.

The driver was treated at the scene and his condition was stabilised before he was taken to Sandwell Hospital.

A passenger in the car, believed to be 17, suffered serious head injuries and was given emergency treatment at the scene.

A woman driver was also cut free from her car after it collided with a lorry on the A456 Birmingham Road at Harborough Hill in Blakedown at 2pm on Saturday.

The woman, thought to be in her 60s, was freed by firefighters from the Citroen AX. She was believed to be suffering from back injuries and was taken to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley.

In Sedgley, two people were taken to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley and a road was closed after two cars collided.

The Ford Ka and Vauxhall Corsa crashed at a junction in Gospel End Street, Sedgley, at 11pm on Saturday.