Man taken to hospital after Wolverhampton crash sees him trapped for an hour
A man was trapped in his car for more than hour after it collided with tree in Bilston.
Emergency services were called to the junction of Wellington Road and Green Lanes shortly before 12.30pm today.
He was taken to New Cross Hospital with cuts and bruising to his head and pain in his lower back.
When West Midlands Ambulance Service arrived they found car, a Mitsubishi, had left the road had struck a tree.
Ambulance spokeswoman Claire Brown said: "The driver of the car, a man believed to be in his 20s or 30s, was trapped in the wreckage.
"Ambulance staff and the medic assessed the man's condition. Remarkably, despite his leg being trapped between the seat and steering wheel column, he sustained no serious limb injuries but did have bruising and cuts to his head as well as lower back pain.
"Whilst the man was monitored and given treatment by ambulance staff, the fire service carefully extricated the man from the badly damaged car. After about an hour, the man was finally released and immobilised with a neck collar and spinal board before being taken by land ambulance to New Cross Hospital."
The road was closed while the car was recovered.
The Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford was called to the crash but wasn't required.
