Three people received serious injuries after a car hit a lamp-post in Stourbridge on Saturday morning.

The incident happened in Birmingham Street just after 5.30am. Two men and a woman were seriously hurt in the smash and all were taken to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

A man in his 20s suffered a serious head injury, another man in his 20s – the driver of the car - suffered multiple serious injuries, and a woman in her 20s also suffered multiple serious injuries and had to be cut free from the car by firefighters.

A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service confirmed that two ambulances, a merit trauma doctor, a responder paramedic and area support officer were sent to the scene, after reports of the crash came in just after 5.36am.

Witnesses to the collision are urged to contact police by calling 101.