Car and van drivers escape severe injury as vehicles badly damaged in Brownhills crash

A white van and grey Land Rover were both seriously damaged in the collision on Chase Road, at around 1.25pm.

One ambulance was called to the scene where they assessed a woman for minor injuries.

A spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 1.25pm to reports of a two car road traffic collision at the junction of Lichfield Road and Ogley Road, Brownhills.

"One ambulance attended the scene. One patient declined assessment. A second patient, a woman, was assessed and found with minor injuries. She was discharged on scene."

West Midlands Fire Service crews were also called to the crash.

Writing to Facebook just after 3pm, Aldridge Fire Station said: "We have just attended a road traffic collision at the junction of Chase Road and Lichfield Road involving a van and a car.

"...One lane remains blocked, but traffic is still moving through. Please approach the area with caution."

A photo taken at the scene showed damage to the front of the van as well as severe damage to the side and rear of the car.

National Express West Midlands warned passengers of an "emergency incident" on Chase Road just before 2.20pm on Monday.

It said service number 8 – which runs between Walsall and Lichfield – had been disrupted.

Writing to X, formerly Twitter, the regional bus company said the service to Lichfield had diverted via Hanney Hay Road and Watling Street.

In an update just before 4pm, it said the incident had cleared with services following a normal line of route.