Road sweeper on rampage

Jim Morris, who runs J. M. Morris plant, who employed the road sweeper police are looking for after several crashes near Birmingham Airport this morning, said it was the first time he'd employed the 60-year-old driver.

This map shows the collisions between four vehicles and a road sweeper on a road near Birmingham Airport this morning.

The crashes happened shortly before 7.00am on Bickenhill Road in Marston Green.

A bus carrying four passengers on their way to the airport, a taxi and two cars were all damaged.

The driver dumped the road sweeper before running off. Officers from West Midlands Police are tonight continuing their search for him.

West Midlands Police are still looking for a road sweeper driver who ran off after crashing into several vehicles near Birmingham Airport.

The driver hit a taxi, bus and two cars on Bickenhill Road in Marston Green shortly before 7.00am.

Officers investigating the incidents have this evening issued the following statement.

Andrew Dodsworth recalls how the road sweeper driver hit his car.

"I heard a bang. (It) hit the bus and then careered straight across the white line into my parked car, took the whole side out and then just sped off, nearly hit someone behind me."