Seven parked cars damaged in latest Wolverhampton Road East crash

A motorist smashed into seven parked cars after losing control of his car on a busy city road early today.

Wolverhampton Road East in the Parkfields area of Wolverhampton was closed for almost six hours while emergency services attended the scene.

It is at least the third serious crash to happen on the same stretch of 30mph road this year and the second to have involved several parked cars.

The series of collisions on the A459 took place shortly after 5am – with a total of seven stationary vehicles struck by the Audi TT car.

Police say the driver, who is in hospital with multiple leg fractures, is believed to have lost control of the vehicle before crashing into the parked vehicles.

It is understood a passenger fled the vehicle. Inquiries are underway to trace him.

The road was cordoned off between Dudding Road and Lawnswood Avenue to allow for the cars to be recovered and the area examined before it was reopened at around 11am.

Buses were diverted around the scene during the closure.

In June a parked car flipped onto its roof and four other cars were badly damaged in a similar crash on the same part of Wolverhampton Road East.

Two men were seen fleeing from that smash, which destroyed two walls but injured nobody, while four men fled another crash six days earlier which saw an engine land 20 metres away from the car it was powering.

Residents have called on the council to introduce speed calming measures on the road, which is surrounded by houses and has primary and secondary schools nearby yet has no speed bumps or traffic lights.

There are speed cameras on the road, but like all cameras in the Black Country they have been turned off for more than five years.