Emergency services called to three-car crash at Oldbury

The incident hapenened at the junction of Perry Hill Road and Castle Road West just before 10.20am.

Police, paramedics and firefighters from Oldbury Fire Station attended the scene.

Video footage of the incident has been shared on social media and one vehicle was pictured with a lamp-post having fallen on top of it.

A spokesperson for West Midlands Fire Service said: "A fire engine and a 4x4 Brigade Response Vehicle, crewed by a total of eight firefighters, arrived at the scene five minutes after being mobilised.

"For people managed to get themselves out of the vehicles before we arrived. Firefighters gave them initial care at the scene.

"We understand that two women were taken to hospital by the ambulance service as a precaution.

"We left the scene just before 11.30am."

West Midlands Ambulance Service said an ambulance and paramedic officer attended the scene and a spokesperson confirmed: "Two women have been taken to hospital after a three-car crash that saw a lamppost land on one of the cars.

"The two women, who were from the same car, were taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham as a precaution.

"A woman in a second car was discharged at the scene.

"A man who was in the third car was assessed at the scene after the lamppost landed on the car he was in causing damage to the roof and windscreen."