Man narrowly avoids serious injury as wall falls on car - with him inside
A man had a lucky escape when a wall of a Black Country home collapsed onto the car he was sitting in.
Hundreds of bricks tumbled from the home in Richmond Hill, Oldbury, at around 5.25pm.
But the man in in his 60s escaped with just minor injuries.
West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman Claire Brown said: "Much to the amazement of ambulance staff, the man who had been in the car was out of the vehicle. Upon assessment he was found to have sustained a minor head injury. Once his wounds were dressed, the man was taken to Sandwell Hospital for further assessment."
She added: "When ambulance staff arrived they found a badly damaged car covered in bricks parked on a driveway in-between two houses. The second storey outside wall of the neighbouring house had collapsed onto the car whilst a man was sitting inside."
It is not yet known how it happened.
Fire crews from Smethwick were initially called to attend and later requested rescue advisors and structural engineers to assist. A spokeswoman for West Midlands Fire Service said the property and the neighbouring home had been evacuated.
She said the cause of the collapse is as yet unknown.
Crews from West Midlands Ambulance Service and police officers also attended the scene.
Two cars were parked on the driveway were damaged.
