{"id":717115,"date":"2026-07-29T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717115\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:59:11","slug":"boy-9-critical-after-two-car-crash-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717115\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 9, critical after two-car crash in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A nine-year-old boy is in hospital in a critical condition after a crash involving two cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to Masshouse Lane at the junction of Shannon Road in Kings Norton at about 17:55 BST on Tuesday. A man and a woman were arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police is appealing to anyone who might have information or was in the area at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The boy remains in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said when an ambulance arrived  an off-duty nurse and police officer were performing CPR on the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver of the same car, a woman, was found with injuries not believed to be serious, and was taken to hospital after being treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ambulance service said two people in the second car were assessed for minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nine-year-old boy is in hospital in a critical condition after a crash involving two cars. Emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717115","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=717115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}