School bus hit as runaway cars cause crashes
[gallery] An out-of-control Audi smashed into a minibus carrying schoolchildren before hitting two parked cars and demolishing a garden wall.
It was one of two crashes involving runaway cars on the region's roads over the weekend, leaving trails of destruction.
In Wolverhampton, an Audi A3 hit a mini bus that was transporting youngsters in Lower Street leaving one injured.
Paramedics treated a nine-year-old boy for a bruise to his head after the crash, at 3.30pm yesterday.
The vehicle then went on to hit another two cars – a Mercedes and a Peugeot - before ploughing into a garden wall, completely demolishing it, before coming to rest on top of a silver mini parked in the driveway.
Residents today said the driver was taken away from the scene by police.
Meanwhile in Wednesbury residents in Hydes Road have been left counting the cost after five vehicles, including a Jaguar X Type and a Mercedes were hit by a BMW in drama that dragged residents out of their beds and out on to the street during the night.
People living in Hydes Road were awoken at 2.20am on Saturday when a BMW hit a Ford Fiesta - destroying the front tyres and smashing the bumper and radiator.
The BMW then ricocheted off three other cars and a van before careering across the road and mounting a pavement, narrowly missing a lamp post and wall.
Police say the driver made off from the scene with residents seeing the man running off towards Brunswick Park. They were two of a number of smashes over the weekend including one in Cookley, near Kidderminster which left a woman dead and two people injured.
