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A suspected drink-driver overturned his car outside a POLICE STATION in the early hours of this morning.

The Ford Mondeo driver was fortunate enough to escape injury after the horror crash - but he was arrested there and then.

The car crashed into the railings of a pedestrian crossing and its driver lost control navigating a roundabout on the A45 Fletchamsted Highway, by Canley Fire Station and the police station near to the junction of Sir Henry Parkes Road.

A spokesman for Canley Fire Station said: “The car ended up right outside our station after the car came round the roundabout at some speed.

“The car ended up through the railings on the pedestrian crossing, and it could have ended up much worse as people still cross there at that time of night.

“The driver had a very lucky escape, especially to get himself out of the car without assistance from us.

“All the railings had to be removed as they were so badly damaged, there are now temporary ones there now, and the car is a complete write off.

“There was a lot of debris on the road from the car and the railings.”

The car was left unrecognisable after landing on its roof just after midnight .

West Midlands Police spokesman said: "Police were alerted to an overturned car outside Canley fire station, Coventry just before 12:30am on Monday 20 February.

"Upon arrival, the fire service were already in attendance on Fletchamstead Highway.

"The driver, surveyor Benjamin Jones, aged 33 from Ainsbury Road, Coventry, was arrested and has been charged with drink driving.

"He was bailed to appear before Coventry magistrates on 6 March."