{"id":530718,"date":"2026-04-14T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:10:08","slug":"marvin-ducksch-birmingham-city-striker-charged-with-drink-driving-after-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530718\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Ducksch: Birmingham City striker charged with drink driving after collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham City striker Marvin Ducksch has been charged with drink driving following a three-vehicle collision on Easter Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warwickshire.police.uk\/news\/warwickshire\/news\/2026\/april\/man-charged-with-drink-driving\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have confirmed, external<\/a> the German was arrested after officers attended the scene on the A3400 near Henley-in-Arden, close to where the club&#8217;s training ground is based, at around 22:30 BST. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was charged with the offence on Monday, 13 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker, 32, is on bail and will appear before Warwickshire Magistrates&#8217; Court in Leamington Spa on Wednesday, 20 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Marvin wishes to apologise to his team-mates, staff and supporters of the club and accepts full responsibility for his actions,&#8221; the club <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BCFC\/status\/2044060952505565668\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">said, external<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The matter has been dealt with internally and no further comment will be made at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ducksch did feature in Blues&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c15dnee5gzqt\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 loss to Ipswich Town<\/a> on the day of the incident but was dropped from the squad for their game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cgqkl4l48x4t\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Wrexham<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City striker Marvin Ducksch has been charged with drink driving following a three-vehicle collision on Easter Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-530718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530718","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=530718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}