Two men have been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving after a nine-year-old girl died in a crash in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
Two cars were involved in a collision in the Hockley area of the city at around 11pm on Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n
The girl was a passenger in one of the vehicles and was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but died a short while later.<\/p>\n
Two men, aged 22 and 23, who were driving a BMW, were arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving while unfit through drugs.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: A woman and two other children from the same car as the nine-year-old girl were taken to hospital to be assessed by doctors, West Midlands Police said.<\/p>\n The force said in a statement following the girl’s death: “Our thoughts are with her loved ones at this devastating time.”<\/p>\n A worker in the local area who saw the aftermath of the crash said one vehicle came to rest on a pavement near the wall of a railway bridge, with another badly damaged car left in the middle of Icknield Street, a busy dual carriageway.<\/p>\n A nearby resident, who did not see the crash and did not wish to be named, said: “It’s a terrible tragedy for the girl’s family.<\/p>\n “There have been fatal accidents on this road in the past, but not in the past few years. It’s just a shock. It’s awful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving after a nine-year-old girl died in a crash in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510874","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=510874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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