12 injured in weekend of collisions

Twelve people were injured in a series of crashes across the region that saw a car hit a house and two others catch fire.

Two cars caught fire in a crash at 6.37am today on Sedgley Road East in Dudley Port.

Crews from Tipton and Oldbury attended and made the cars safe. Two people had escaped the vehicles and were taken to hospital.

Four men and a nine-year-old girl were injured in a collision between two cars in Northfield Road, Harborne, Birmingham at around 1.20pm yesterday.

A driver in his 40s suffered serious head and chest injuries and was trapped in his blue Jaguar after it rolled over into a field on the A449, near Gailey Island in Staffordshire on Saturday night. A Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford was sent to the scene, at around 6pm.

An hour later a car hit the side of a house in Worcester Road, Harvington, near Kidderminster, leaving a woman trapped in her vehicle.

Two men were airlifted to hospital when their 4x4 overturned at about 1.10pm on Saturday on the B4194 in Ribbesford, Bewdley. Another man also suffered minor injuries.