Drama as car flips onto roof

A motorist escaped with just minor injuries after his car flipped onto its roof in Wolverhampton city centre as shocked shoppers looked on.

Eyewitnesses described how they saw the driver scrambling from the Ford Fiesta just seconds after the accident in Pitt Street, near to Market Square, yesterday afternoon.

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Police and paramedics were on the scene in a matter of minutes and discovered that the driver suffered a minor wrist injury and did not require hospital treatment.

Karen Foster, from the nearby career development firm Topps Ltd, said she was working in the offices when she heard an "almighty crash".

"I turned around to look outside, saw a car on its roof and a man crawling out of the window. He got out and then went back to the car so we thought there might have been someone else in there," she said.

The drama unfolded at about 12.30pm yesterday.