{"id":286723,"date":"2025-07-24T02:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286723\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:06:17","slug":"two-seriously-hurt-in-birmingham-horror-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286723\/","title":{"rendered":"Two &#8216;seriously hurt&#8217; in Birmingham horror crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man and woman suffered &#8216;serious injuries&#8217; after a two-car crash in Newtown, which saw one vehicle end up on its roof<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_1000043406.jpg\" alt=\"Two cars were involved in an early morning crash in Newtown (one, believed to be a Mercedes, pictured with front end damage and the other ending up on its roof, with a man and a woman, believed to be the drivers of the cars, suffering serious injuries and being taken to hospital \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Two cars were involved in an early morning crash in Newtown, with a man and a woman, believed to be the drivers of the cars, suffering serious injuries and being taken to hospital <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two people have suffered \u2018serious injuries\u2019 in a two-vehicle crash in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The collision took place at the junction of New Town Row and New John Street West, the A4540 Birmingham ring road in Newtown, shortly before 6am on Wednesday (July 23).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One car ended up on its roof, while the second, believed to be a Mercedes, suffered severe front-end damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/former-sutton-coldfield-police-station-32120115\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Successful bidder to take over former city police station confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to the scene.<\/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-ambulance-service\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Ambulance Service<\/a> confirmed a man and a woman, believed to be the drivers of each vehicle, suffered \u2018serious injuries\u2019 and \u2018potentially serious injuries\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They were treated at the scene before being rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_1000043405.jpg\" alt=\"The crash took place near the Safestore Self Storage unit in Newtown at the junction of New Town Row and the A4540 New John Street West, with police, fire and ambulance vehicles pictured at the scene \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The crash took place near the Safestore Self Storage unit in Newtown at the junction of New Town Row and the A4540 New John Street West<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesman for the service said: \u201cWe were called to reports of a two-car road traffic collision near to the junction of New Town Row and New John Street at 5.43am on Wednesday (July 23).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cTwo ambulances and a MERIT (Medical Emergency Response Intervention Team) trauma doctor attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOn arrival, we discovered two patients, a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cA man was treated for potentially serious injuries and a woman for serious injuries, before they were both taken to Midland Metropolitan University Hospital for further treatment.\u201d<\/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\">Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokeswoman for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-fire-service\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Fire Service<\/a> said: \u201cWe had the call at 5.40am. We sent two appliances, a fire engine from Aston and one from Ladywood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThere were two cars involved in a collision. One was on its roof and one car came to rest on its wheels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOne woman and one man were assisted from their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe made the vehicles safe and left the scene after around an hour.\u201d<\/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 been approached for a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and woman suffered &#8216;serious injuries&#8217; after a two-car crash in Newtown, which saw one vehicle end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,8596,13284,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-286723","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-west-midlands-ambulance-service","15":"tag-west-midlands-fire-service","16":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286723","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=286723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}