Driver and dog escape injury after car crashes into Walsall canal overnight
A Walsall driver and his dog had a rude awakening when they took a wrong turning into the town's canal lock.
Firefighters were called out to the stricken driver whose car was halfway into the water at Old Birchills. However, the driver and his dog escaped the vehicle before emergency services arrived.
West Midlands Fire Service and West Midlands Police were on the scene around just after midnight near The Navigation pub.
A spokesman for West Midlands Fire Service said: "We were called at 12.03am in the early hours of Friday, March 31 after a man had driven into a canal lock in Birchills, Walsall.
"The vehicle's front bumper and wheels had submerged in the water. The man and his dog had managed to self-extricate from the car prior to our arrival."
