A 91-year-old pensioner knocked down by a hit-and-run driver in Tipton has died.

Clarence Elwin, known locally as Joe, was walking his dog Zach, just yards from his home in Gospel Oak Road on June 21 when he was hit by a black Toyota Celica.

The driver of the car sped off, leaving the pensioner, a former railway worker, seriously injured in the road.

Despite surviving multiple injuries in the crash almost five months ago, the great-grandfather, from Gospel End Road, Tipton, died in Sandwell Hospital on Saturday.

Daughter Pauline Fox, aged 68, said: “The whole family is just devastated.

“He never got over what happened and I still feel so much anger towards the driver of that car.

“How anyone could leave someone lying in the gutter like that I will never know. In my eyes this is manslaughter.”

Following the crash the Express & Star launched a poster campaign appealing for help to trace the driver.

Mr Elwin was released from hospital on September 26 after a 15-week stay, but needed 24-hour care in Waterside Nursing Home in Tipton and was unable to walk.

Police have bailed a 25-year-old man in connection with the incident.