20/08/2014

Police Stop Wrong Way Motorway Driver With Head-On Collision

A police patrol car crashed head-on into a car travelling the wrong way along a motorway.

West Midlands Police say that a Honda Jazz car was reported to be driving at 50mph the wrong way on the A38 near Sutton Coldfield, at about 21:50 on Tuesday.

The car was being driven a 77-year-old man with dementia, who had been reported missing from his home.

One police office suffered a minor injury in the collision but the elderly driver escaped uninjured.

(MH/CD)

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