Two killed and boy badly hurt in smashes

Two women have died and a 10-year-old boy was seriously injured in a series of crashes on the region's roads.

Rain was causing further problems for drivers today as two lanes on the M6 were shut northbound between junction five at Castle Bromwich and junction six at Spaghetti Junction following a car crash.

The female driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

A pensioner died after she was knocked down by a lorry in Rowley Regis. The woman, believed to be in her 60s, was killed after the accident near to the crossroads separating Holly Road and Ross yesterday.

A second woman died and another was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a tree in Wood End Road, Wednesfield.

The victim was a rear seat passenger in the white Citroen Saxo who suffered a heart attack. The driver of the car, a woman in her 20s, was also taken to hospital just after 3pm.

In a separate incident on Neachells Lane in Wednesfield a woman in her 50s had to be cut from her car after it hit a wall at Wednesfield Conservative Club.

Last night a boy, aged 10, suffered serious head and leg injuries after being knocked down by a car in Bilston. The crash happened in Wilkinson Avenue at around 8.10pm.

He went to Birmingham Children's Hospital. The driver of the car, a woman in her 20s, was uninjured.

Meanwhile, the driver of a Citroen Picasso thought to be in his late 20s was taken to Walsall Manor Hospital with a suspected spinal injury after a three-car collision in Goscote Lane in the town just after 4pm.

And a man and a nine-year-old boy were also cut free from a Suzuki Vitara after it crashed into a lamp post and fence in Grange Lane, Lye yesterday.