A West Bromwich man killed in a motorway smash with a fire engine was today named as Sarabjit Singh.

Mr Singh, aged 35, of New Street, Hill Top, died in hospital after the car he was travelling in hit a stationary fire engine dealing with a crash on the sliproad between the M5 and M42 near Bromsgrove.

Three vehicles had skidded off the carriageway and into the central reservation in separate incidents believed to have been caused by the icy conditions.

Fire crews were at the scene as a fourth car, a Vauxhall Vectra, hit the fire engine. Mr Singh, a passenger in the Vectra suffered major trauma during the crash and a heart attack.

He was treated at the scene before being taken to Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, where he died several hours later. All four smashes happened between junction 4a on the M5 Southbound and Junction 1 of the M42, near Lydiate Ash early on Saturday morning, between 6.30 and 7am.