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A woman and a man, both aged in their 20’s, suffered serious injuries and were rushed to hospital after the crash on Bittell Farm Road in Barnt Green on Saturday, May 3\"PoliceStock image of a West Mercia Police scene(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

A man has been arrested after two people were injured in a crash in Barnt Green.<\/p>\n

West Mercia Police said a white BMW X5, traveling towards Hopwood, collided with a tree, on Bittell Farm Road, at 12.30am, on Saturday, May 3.<\/p>\n

A woman and a man, both aged in their 20’s, suffered serious injuries and were rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n

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Police said a man, 24, was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n

Police said he was later released on bail pending further inquiries.<\/p>\n

West Mercia Police said in a statement: “We are appealing for witnesses following a car colliding with a tree on Bittell Farm Road, Barnt Green, on Saturday 3 May.<\/p>\n

“The collision happened around 12:20am involving a white BMW X5 that was traveling towards Hopwood.<\/p>\n

“A woman and a man in their 20s were taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital<\/a> in Birmingham<\/a> with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

“A 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. He is now on bail.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019d like to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time who may have witnessed the collision, or anyone who has dash-cam footage from around the time it happened.<\/p>\n

“Please contact Police Constable Harper by emailing daniel.harper@westmercia.police.uk<\/p>\n

“Alternatively, information can be passed anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and a man, both aged in their 20’s, suffered serious injuries and were rushed to hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,10145,2417,16,15,9162],"class_list":{"0":"post-101620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-queen-elizabeth-hospital","13":"tag-the-queen","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-worcestershire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114507924548506237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}