{"id":28507,"date":"2019-02-19T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28507"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T10:49:04","slug":"taxi-overturned-in-crash-on-stratford-road-hall-green-passenger-thrown-out-of-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/taxi-overturned-in-crash-on-stratford-road-hall-green-passenger-thrown-out-of-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi overturned in crash on Stratford Road Hall Green passenger thrown out of window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A passenger in a taxi was thrown through the window and ended up beneath the overturned cab in a dreadful accident on one of Birmingham&#8217;s busiest roads the A34. Fire crews said the other car involved left the crash scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The victim was dashed through the back window when the taxi collided with a car in\u00a0Stratford Road,\u00a0Hall Green\u00a0on Monday 18<sup>th<\/sup> February. Opposite Hall Green Health Centre, at around 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi driver was helped from the wreckage and suffered only minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The female passenger was rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters later warned others: &#8220;Always wear your seatbelt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook post from Billesley Fire Station read: &#8220;RTC Stratford Rd, Hall Green. 2 car collision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Passenger ejected through rear window ending up underneath rear quarter of vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately only minor injuries and not trapped. Driver assisted out, uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other vehicle involved left scene. *Always* wear your seatbelt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: &#8220;We were called to reports of an RTC involving an overturned car in Hall Green just after 7.30pm last night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sent one ambulance, one paramedic officer and a merit doctor. One patient, a woman, was taken to Heartlands Hospital for relatively minor injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger in a taxi was thrown through the window and ended up beneath the overturned cab in a dreadful accident on one of Birmingham&#8217;s busiest roads the A34. Fire crews said the other car involved left the crash scene. The victim was dashed through the back window when the taxi collided with a car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,1590,1971,1166,505],"class_list":["post-28507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-hall-green","tag-stratford-road","tag-taxi","tag-west-midlands-ambulance-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}