Region is hit by weekend crashes

Several people were injured in a weekend of road crashes across the Black Country and Staffordshire.

A driver in his 20s was cut free by fire crews after his car crashed into a telegraph pole in Wobaston Road, Bilbrook, at 10.20pm yesterday.

He suffered minor injuries to his neck, stomach and hip before being taken to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.

Two women also had to be cut free after an accident in Old Landywood Lane, Cheslyn Hay, at 11pm yesterday, while an smash near Stourbridge saw a busy junction closed for more than an hour after a car ended up on the other side of the road.

Three people were taken to Russell's Hall Hospital in Dudley after the crash, at 1.10pm yesterday, when a white Mazda travelling towards Kidderminster on the A449 collided with a blue Mondeo travelling the opposite way.

Earlier in Walsall, four people were injured after a two car collision.