A PENSIONER has said a crash involving two cars on a junction near his home, is “just one of a string of accidents that have happened here”.

Angus McCulloch was approaching the junction between Chance Lane and Guarlford Road on Friday afternoon, when he came across “the aftermath of a collision”.

The 72-year-old said he saw three police cars and an ambulance – with a silver Vauxhall Zafira appearing to have knocked down the Chance Lane road sign after coming off the road.

The car looked to have then crossed the common and then been “stopped by the hedge and ditch below”, said Mr McCulloch.

Another blue car, which he could not identify the make of, had “serious frontal damage”.

A spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said crews were called to the incident at 3.15pm and six people were assessed at the scene, with a woman and young boy taken to hospital.

Despite no-one being seriously injured following the crash, Mr McCulloch, who has lived in Chance Lane for 24 years, said Guarlford Road is an accident hotspot.

He referred to an incident on the road in June, in which a motorcyclist was killed following a crash with a Land Rover as a prime example.

Other residents at the time had said the road is commonly known as the ‘Guarlford straight’ and is notoriously dangerous.

Mr McCulloch said he can remember at least three accidents on the straight, some of which involved vehicles pulling out of Chance Lane.

He said councillors visited the road as part of the decision process for a recent planning application and deemed the road safe.

“There’s a sort of rise in the road and people coming from Guarlford can’t always see it. Chance Lane is very narrow and is a blindspot. They’ve [councillors] said there aren’t any accidents, but there are.”

On Friday, Mr McCulloch and his wife Rosemary were heading to the cinema to watch Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again when they came across the crash scene.

Mr McCulloch, who previously worked at what was then the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment before retiring, said a paramedic was talking to a young man seated on the ground “looking dazed”.

“The young man had his head in his hands and was sat on the grass,” he explained. “A paramedic was crouched next to him with a clipboard, getting the facts.”

He said the “badly damaged blue vehicle” was then removed on a low loader about 6:30pm.

Photos taken by Mr McCulloch show the Vauxhall jammed into the hedge, wrapped in police tape and with a wheel plate having fallen off.

A neighbour told him over the weekend the Vauxhall was being driven by his son and contained his daughter-in-law and two grandchildren, who had not been seriously injured.