Car knocks bridge wall into canal

Published: Monday, 06 August 2018

A MAN arrested on suspicion of drink driving crashed his car and knocked a section of a bridge wall into the Stourbridge Canal.

He is still in police custody this morning. A section of a bridge wall surrounding the Stourbridge Canal was demolished and landed in the waterway at Wordsley, Alan Tilbury reports.

Stourbridge wallYoung boys and woman injured

Two young boys, aged four and six, were injured in the crash together with a woman who suffered a broken leg, with all being taken to hospital after the crash.

The boys sustained minor injuries but were taken to Russells Hall Hospital as a precaution then released, whilst the woman was kept in for treatment.