{"id":432698,"date":"2026-02-18T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432698\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:08:07","slug":"panic-in-birmingham-as-shots-fired-at-car-and-people-fleeting-the-area-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432698\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic in Birmingham as &#8216;shots fired at car&#8217; and people &#8216;fleeting the area&#8217; | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have launched an investigation after gunshots were fired at a car in Birmingham that sent the driver crashing into a van before the occupants fled the scene. Emergency services rushed to Radnor Close in Rednal just after 10.30pm on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police confirmed that a car crashed into a stationary van after shots were fired at it. The people inside the vehicle then ran away, and no one was injured.\u00a0A spokesperson said: &#8220;We are investigating after shots were fired at a car in Radnor Close, Birmingham, at just after 10.30pm yesterday (Tues).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers understand that the car hit a stationary vehicle before the occupants fled the scene. No one has reported any injuries to us. Investigators are working to establish who was involved and trace those responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The road has since been cordoned off, with a black Volkswagen lodged into the driver&#8217;s side of a white van.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police has now launched an investigation into the incident, and urged anyone with information or footage to come forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*** Ensure our latest news headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source.\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=express.co.uk&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here to activate<\/a>\u00a0or add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings. ***<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added: &#8220;We will have extra patrols in the area in the coming days to offer reassurance to the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone with information including dashcam and mobile phone footage should contact us on 101 quoting l crime reference 20\/151300\/26<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched an investigation after gunshots were fired at a car in Birmingham that sent the driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2426,158203,158206,3846,59,57,58,50,288,158204,56,54,55,3921,2152,158205],"class_list":{"0":"post-432698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-shooting","10":"tag-community-reassurance-patrols","11":"tag-emergency-news","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-radnor-close-incident","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-west-midlands","22":"tag-west-midlands-police","23":"tag-west-midlands-police-investigation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}