{"id":73188,"date":"2025-08-17T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73188\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:50:07","slug":"drink-driving-arrest-after-man-killed-in-sutton-coldfield-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73188\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink-driving arrest after man killed in Sutton Coldfield crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his late 70s sadly died after a collision in Thornhill Road<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Thornhill-Road-Streetly.jpg\" alt=\"Thornhill Road, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Thornhill Road, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after a pedestrian was killed in a crash in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sutton-coldfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sutton Coldfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police said the pedestrian, a man in his late 70s, was struck by a car in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sutton-coldfield\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thornhill Road<\/a>, Streetly, just before 6pm yesterday, August 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was found with fatal injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/residents-frightened-murder-suspect-arrested-32288906?int_source=nba\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Residents &#8216;frightened&#8217; as murder suspect arrested after &#8216;stab attack&#8217; in home<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and drink driving following the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He remained in custody for questioning this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> spokesperson said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve arrested a man after a pedestrian has tragically died after being hit by a car in Streetly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We were called to a collision in Thornhill Road at just before 6pm yesterday (16 August).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A man in his late-70s was found with fatal injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this devastating time and we&#8217;ll be doing all we can to support them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and drink driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;He currently remains in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;re working to establish the full circumstances and we&#8217;re keen to hear from anyone with information about the collision which involved a white Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;re particularly interested in speaking to the driver of a silver Range Rover who may have important information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Anyone who hasn&#8217;t spoken to us already, and has dashcam or CCTV footage which could help us, is asked to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit. &#8220;You can do this via email at sciu@westmidlands.police.uk or, alternatively, call us on 101 and quote log 3815 of August 16.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his late 70s sadly died after a collision in Thornhill RoadThornhill Road, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield(Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,36828,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-73188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-sutton-coldfield","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73188","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=73188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}