04/08/2014

Driver Cut Free After Car Smashes Into Pub Toilets

A man is being treated in hospital for leg injuries after the car he was driving left the road and smashed through a wall into a pub's toilets.

It is understood that the car went over a wall and smashed into the Longford House Beefeater in Cannock at about 01:35 on Monday morning.

Police say the driver, a man aged in his 30s, was trapped in the vehicle for around 90 minutes. Emergency blood supplies were needed at the scene as fire crews worked to cut the driver free from the wreckage.

An ambulance spokesperson said that the man was "extremely fortunate" that no-one was was fatally hurt in the crash.

(MH/CD)

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