{"id":155504,"date":"2025-06-03T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155504\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:50:18","slug":"pedestrian-potentially-seriously-injured-following-collision-with-car-in-great-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155504\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian ‘potentially seriously injured’ following collision with car in Great Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency services rushed to the scene of Gainsborough Road<\/a>, near the A34 Walsall Road Southbound, Great Barr<\/a>, Sandwell<\/a>, at around 3pm, to reports of a traffic collision between a pedestrian and a car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On arrival, West Midlands Ambulance Service<\/a> teams found a man, who was the pedestrian. He was quickly assessed and was found to have sustained potentially serious injuries.<\/p>\n

He received treatment at the scene before being conveyed to Midlands Metropolitan University Hospital for further assessment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"GainsboroughGainsborough Road, Great Barr, near to where the incident happened<\/p>\n

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called shortly after 3pm to a road traffic collision involving a car and a pedestrian. One ambulance attended the scene. Upon arrival, we found a man who was the pedestrian.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He was assessed and had sustained potentially serious injuries. He received treatment at the scene before being conveyed to Midland Metropolitan University Hospital for further assessment. No further patients required treatment.”<\/p>\n

Road users were urged to plan ahead following the collision, with congestion and delays being reported around the area at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On X, a roads watchdog group, West Midlands Roads, said: “Gainsborough Road. Road traffic collision on this route near the A34 Walsall Road Southbound.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Expect congestion and delays in the area.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services rushed to the scene of Gainsborough Road, near the A34 Walsall Road Southbound, Great Barr, Sandwell,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,25038,4884,379,12,12608,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-155504","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-barr","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sandwell","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155504","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=155504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}