Four die in head-on collision
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Your support makes all the difference.Four people were killed and another four injured in a head-on collision in West Bromwich in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The crash between two cars, in which a young girl and three other people were injured, killed three women aged 28, 35 and 40. A man aged 21 died in hospital later in the morning.
West Midlands Police said the man who died in the accident, close to a bridge over the Walsall Canal, was a passenger in a Citroen Saxo, which collided with a Ford Fiesta in Greets Green Road at about 12.45am.
Each vehicle was carrying four people when the crash happened, killing the 40-year-old woman travelling in the Saxo and two other women travelling in the Fiesta. Four other people survived the crash, near an industrial estate.
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