{"id":124337,"date":"2025-05-23T04:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124337\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T04:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:39:11","slug":"yardley-arson-attack-as-two-cars-set-on-fire-in-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124337\/","title":{"rendered":"Yardley arson attack as two cars set on fire in street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vehicles were set on fire outside an address in Clements Road<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_clements-roadJPG.jpg\" alt=\"A Google street view of Clements Road in Yardley\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A Google street view of Clements Road in Yardley(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police have launched an arson investigation after two cars were set on fire in a city street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The arson attack happened in Clements Road, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/yardley-and-stechford\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Yardley<\/a>, at around 1.15am today, May 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two vehicles were set ablaze outside an address in the residential street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/whats-on-news\/huge-queues-bullring-shoppers-rush-31697822\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Huge queues at Bullring as shoppers rush to new Birmingham store &#8211; with some arriving at 5am<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Luckily, no-one was injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Extra officers will be in the area today to provide reassurance to the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> has appealed to the public for information following the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/JcXF3MxQGZs3GoiEA8W2fn\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A force spokesperson said: &#8220;We are appealing for information following an arson attack on vehicles in a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> residential street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;At around 1.15am today, two vehicles were set on fire outside an address in Clements Road, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/yardley-and-stechford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Yardley<\/a>. Thankfully, no-one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We understand that this will be concerning for the community, and we will have extra officers in the area to provide reassurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Don&#8217;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Our investigators are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed this incident, or may have information to help our investigation, to contact us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;You can contact us via Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101 quoting log 184 of 22 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Alternatively, you can report anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vehicles were set on fire outside an address in Clements RoadA Google street view of Clements Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,7843],"class_list":{"0":"post-124337","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-yardley-and-stechford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114555306898509283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124337","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=124337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}