A child has sadly died following a collision in Hockley, Birmingham. Police were called to Icknield Street at around 11pm last night (Thursday) following a two-car collision.
A nine-year-old girl – a passenger in one of the cars – was taken to hospital with serious injuries but sadly died a short while later. Police said their thoughts are with her loved ones at this devastating time. A woman and two other children from the same car were also taken to hospital to be assessed for injuries.
Two men aged 22 and 23 from the second car, a BMW, have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving whilst unfit through drugs.
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Anyone who witnessed the collision or if you have dashcam or doorbell footage is asked to get in touch with us. You can do so via Live Chat on our website or by calling 101 quoting log 5769 of 2 April.
You can also contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit directly at sciu@westmidlands.police.uk
Meanwhile, dashcam footage captured a lorry driver’s response following a horrific M62 crash that left a woman with severe injuries.
Wayne Burgess, who tested positive for cocaine after his arrest, was heard exclaiming ‘F****** hell, I’ve just killed someone’ after he crashed into the rear of a car near Birch Services.
Minshull Street Crown Court heard it was a miracle that the victim, a 70-year-old grandmother of two, survived. Moments before the collision on May 2 last year, a distracted Burgess, 61, could be heard on a hands-free call reciting a postcode in Salford while seemingly inputting it into a sat nav.
The woman’s car was crushed between Burgess’s lorry and another truck in front. She was trapped inside for a ‘significant’ period before firefighters cut her free from the wreckage and transported her to the major trauma unit at Salford Royal.
There she received treatment for a fractured eye socket, two broken ribs, numerous cuts and other injuries. The court heard the crash resulted in her suffering ‘severe facial disfigurement’.
Amy Weir, prosecuting, informed the court that the woman was driving home from work in the inside lane of the M62 when she started slowing down due to heavy traffic. She then glanced in her rear-view mirror and saw a lorry ‘hurtling’ towards her.
In a victim impact statement read aloud in court, the woman said she immediately knew the collision was inevitable. Recounting the ‘devastating’ moment of the crash, she stated: “The horror that was inevitable hit me in an instant.
“It seemed like he was trying to kill me. The noise was deafening and when everything went still the silence was eerie. I was helpless, crushed between two lorries and convinced I wasn’t going to survive.”