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This is the dramatic scene when a tree fell on a taxi in Weoley Castle – leaving the driver inches from death.

The 35-year-old male driver miraculously escaped serious injury after the huge tree uprooted from a nearby park and smashed on to the bonnet of the silver Mercedes.

Building contractor Barry Holloway took the footage and said:”I had popped out to the chippy at about 12.30pm and saw the tree across the taxi.

“A couple of workmen said a taxi driver had been driving down the road when the tree came down.

“The car was well crushed and the tyres had popped. The wheels were also at a funny angle.

“The thing is that there was a trail of petrol from the car which is worrying. A few inches further and the tree would have come down on his roof so he had a lucky escape.

A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: “ An ambulance came across the scene and saw that the tree had fallen across the taxi and had blocked the road.

“The patient complained of pain to the right side of his neck but declined hospital treatment.

“He was discharged at the scene.”

The silver Mercedes was half buried in the branches of the tree in Shenley Fields Road.

West Midlands Fire Service said they had not received any calls to the scene.

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

[quote="edders23"] nasty

that's all you had to post mate

Bit windy down here, other than that it was fine.

We are a hardened lot down here, not like Northerners who have flu and colds.

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IDFIMH

Good luck in getting a pay out from his insurance company for that one, won't they call it an act of nature?

We have unconfirmed reports that one of 135 sweetie shop's cabs got it's windscreen broken by falling debris at the taxi rank

Also one of our local pubs has had to close after the chimney collapsed luckily a member of staff that had been right next to it had moved away 3 minutes before

other than that a few roads closed by falling trees one or two cars damaged by falling branches nothing much really

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

All those south of the border don't go out , all those in Scotland you might need a jumper

It was a 100 mph by me..OZ..

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!