A MAN was speared by a wooden stake after his car ended up in hedge in Stanford Bridge.
The car left the B4203, just to the east of Stanford Bridge and crashed into a hedge at 11.20pm on Wednesday night.
The stake went through the front of the car, and into his leg.
An ambulance, a paramedic officer and the MERIT Trauma doctor and critical care paramedic attended the crash.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “On arrival, ambulance staff found the car with significant front-end damage.
"The stake which was about three inches across had come through the front of the car had gone into the patients left leg.
“After being given pain relief, the man was extricated with the help of firefighters.
“He was assessed on the ambulance by the doctor before being taken on blue lights to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.”
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