Man is killed in tree collision

Dec 28 2006 By Mark Cowan, Birmingham Mail

A MAN has died after becoming trapped inside the wreckage of car which ploughed into a tree in Birmingham in yet more tragedy on the region's roads.

Firefighters and paramedics battled to cut the man free from the mangled car which left the road and smashed into the tree in Sedgmere Road, Yardley.

Despite their best efforts to save the man, believed to be in his 20s, he was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.

Emergency services were alerted shortly after 8.40pm yesterday to reports of the collision outside the sports and social club.

A rapid response vehicle was on scene within five minutes backed up by two ambulances and a Clinical Support Officer shortly afterwards.

A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "Sadly despite the best efforts of ambulance and hospital staff it was not possible to save the man."

The man's death was the latest tragedy on the roads in Birmingham and came five days after two men died in a tragic motorcycle accident in at the junction of Crossway Lane and Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding, last Friday.

Elsewhere in the Midlands a teenage girl died after being knocked down in Bromsgrove at 5.30pm on Wednesday.

The 16-year-old was walking along Worcester Road when she was involved in a collision with a red Rover 220.

She was taken by ambulance to Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival when paramedics and doctors lost their battle to save her.

PC Mark Rowley, from North Worcestershire's Road Policing Unit, said: "This must be a very difficult time for the girl's family and our thoughts go out to them."