Woman hit by lorry in Wednesbury horror crash is named
A woman who is fighting for her life after being hit by a lorry in Wednesbury has been named as local woman Lorraine Sheridan.
The 62-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital following the crash, which happened on High Bullen at around 10.40am last Friday.
The road was closed for several hours while officers from the collision investigation unit examined the scene.
PC Adam Green said: "This happened on a busy dual carriageway on a Friday morning and there would have been a number of people in the area at the time.
"I need people who may have seen the collision to come forward and call me or my team on 101."
Traffic came to a standstill for around half an hour in the town centre after the accident.
Ben Willmore, a sales man at Gemini Carpets opposite the scene of the accident, said: "An elderly lady was run over, so we called 999. The scene was a real horror story.
"She was in her 60s, we were worried about getting an ambulance there because it's a busy junction.
"The air ambulance arrived really quickly and there were lots of police there straight away."
The crossing is the same place where 14-year-old James Birks, from Wednesbury, was struck on April 24 last year while out playing with friends. That accident left him unable to speak or walk unaided, but he is now back home recovering with his family.
Another witness, sales consultant, Jazz Bal, said: "She was still talking and people were helping her, one of them looked like a doctor.
"It's a really busy junction, a lot of traffic goes up High Bullen. This isn't the first time there has been an accident ."
Ambulance crews immediately started treating the woman at the scene, before taking her to hospital.
