Two men cut free as car hits traffic island and rolls into parked vehicles
Two men had to be cut free from a car after an early-hours crash.
Fire crews from Willenhall and Fallings Park in Wolverhampton were called to Wood End Road in Wednesfield at about 12.20am on Wednesday after the silver BMW crashed.
The car involved in the crash had its roof cut off to free the driver and passenger trapped inside.
Both men were treated for injuries not believed to be serious before being taken to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.
A West Midlands Fire Service spokesman said: "It involved a car which had been in collision with a traffic island.
"After the collision the car continued a distance of 20m as it was rolling before it came to rest against two parked vehicles.
"Two men were trapped in the vehicle and were freed by firefighters using cutting equipment to remove the roof of the vehicle.
"Crews made the vehicles safe and the casualties were then passed into the care of the ambulance service."
A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called to reports of a single-vehicle road traffic collision on Wood End Road at 12.12am.
"Two ambulances and a paramedic officer attended the scene.
"On arrival we discovered two male patients, the driver and a passenger. They were both cut free from the car by the fire service before being treated for injuries not believed to be serious and being taken to New Cross Hospital."
West Midlands Police was also called to the scene.
A spokesman for the police force said: "We were called after a car hit two vehicles parked in Wood End Road, Wolverhampton, at just after midnight.
"A driver in his 20s and a passenger were taken to hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.
"Anyone with information can contact us via live chat at west-midlands.police.uk, quoting log 43 of March 23, or call 101."
