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Drink-drive arrest as car crashes into lamppost in Stourbridge

A man has been arrested after a car crashed into a lamppost in Stourbridge.

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The crash. Photo: Force Response

A 46-year-old was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after the crash on Vicarage Road in Wollaston just after 8.30pm yesterday.

Force Response tweeted saying: "Dudley response have responded to an RTC. Car v lamppost.

"The lamppost light is spinning, so will the driver's head when he wakes up in custody tomorrow morning.

"He has blown 122 at the roadside. Extremely dangerous."

The legal drink-drive limit in England is 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath.

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: "A 46-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after a car crashed into a lamppost on Vicarage Road in Wollaston just after 8.30pm last night, has been released pending further investigation as enquiries continue."

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