Lamppost, cars and garden wall ruined as £60k Alfa Romeo crashes
A top-of-the-range sports car was left badly damaged after it smashed into a lamppost and two parked cars on a residential road.
Nobody was seriously injured, but part of a wall was knocked over and the lamppost was left leaning at a 45-degree angle after the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio crashed in Wolverhampton last night.
The 2.9-litre car mounted the grass verge in Pinfold Lane, Penn, and hit two parked cars as well as the wall and lamppost.
Photos taken at the scene showed major damage to the driver's side of the 2017 Alfa Romeo, which retails for upwards of £60,000, while the rear end of a black Peugeot hatchback was crushed and a silver Vauxhall Corsa also damaged.
Bricks from a front-garden wall were knocked out in the crash and lay scattered next to the cars and crash debris on the churned-up grass verge.
The 31-year-old male driver, who was the only person involved, suffered minor facial injuries from an airbag but refused treatment from paramedics at the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called at 5.27pm to reports of an RTC.
"We sent a single ambulance. A car had gone into a lamppost and another parked car.
"The patient, the driver, was shocked. He has minor facial injuries from the air-bag.
"We advised them to go to hospital but he said he did not want to."
West Midlands Police said officers were called to the crash but no arrests were made.
