THREE people and a toddler were taken to Russells Hall Hospital after a three-car crash in Wombourne last night.

Police, fire and ambulance crews were alerted to the incident in Bridgnorth Road, at the junction with Wombourne Park, at around 9.30pm on Saturday January 15.

A total of 13 firefighters from Dudley and Brierley Hill worked at the scene, cutting the roof off the third vehicle involved in the collision.

West Midlands Ambulance Service sent three ambulances, two paramedic officers and a MERIT trauma doctor and critical care paramedics to the scene and a spokesman said: "We treated two men and a woman for injuries not believed to be serious and a young boy, also for injuries not believed to be serious.

"All were conveyed to hospital for further assessment.”