Neighbours shock as car smash demolishes garden wall in Netherton
[gallery] A car overturned and smashed into a garden wall sending bricks hurtling into glass patio doors and parked cars.
The driver, a 22-year-old man, suffered a head injury but was able to escape the wreckage of his car following the crash along Cradley Road, in Netherton, yesterday at 5.40pm.
He was placed on a spinal board before being taken by ambulance to Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital for further treatment. He also suffered cuts and bruises.
Stunned residents were today picking up the pieces following the smash, which left two vehicles parked on a driveway outside one house badly damaged. The porch doors of another property were smashed and debris scattered all over the drive. The wall runs along the front of two properties along the road and was reduced to rubble by the impact.
Resident Elsie Carter, 91, said she had heard a loud crash and came out to a scene of devastation. The glass in her front patio doors was smashed by flying bricks.
"I was sitting down and just heard this loud noise and wondered what it was," she said.
West Midlands Ambulance spokesman John Hawker said: "The man was extremely fortunate not to have suffered more serious injuries."
