Balsall Common Jaguar crashes through butcher's shop – staff leap onto the chopping block
A Jaguar E-Pace crashed through the front of Eric Lyons Butchers in Balsall Common just after midday. Staff leapt onto the chopping block; nobody was hurt. The shop is closed until January.
Just after midday on Wednesday, Station Road in Balsall Common got an uninvited delivery.
A Jaguar E-Pace – the make named by the Mirror and SWNS; the BBC called it a vehicle – appeared to be attempting to park outside Eric Lyons Butchers, then lurched forward through the plate-glass frontage. Sausages, steaks and chops went flying. Nick Lyons said the car went through about 90% of the shop front.
Real photo: Station Road in Balsall Common (August 2017) – not the crash. Photo: Richard Law / CC BY-SA 2.0 (via Wikimedia Commons / Geograph 5535038).
Two staff behind the counter leapt up onto the wooden chopping block. A customer was in the back-right of the shop. Nobody was hurt. West Midlands Ambulance assessed a woman and discharged her at the scene. Two people in the vehicle freed themselves before fire crews arrived; two engines attended.
AI illustration – imagined aftermath. (Spot Gaz, our gorilla, hiding somewhere in this picture.)
The family-run butcher’s – dating back to the 1800s, with shops also in Knowle, Bentley Heath and Codsall – had only reopened on Monday after about two weeks of refurbishment. It will stay closed for repairs until January; Christmas orders and deliveries are unaffected.
“So I reckon 80% of the shop someone would have been critically injured, or if not, worse,” Nick Lyons said. “So yeah, [a] miracle has happened basically today. The most important thing is no-one has been injured.”
AI illustration – imagined scene; Christmas orders and deliveries are unaffected.
West Midlands Police are investigating the collision on Station Road, Balsall Common, Solihull, just after 12:00 GMT on Wednesday. No one has reported injuries to them. Anyone with information can call 101, quoting log 2012 of 4 November.
Reported by BBC News (4 Nov 2026); Jaguar E-Pace make via the Mirror / SWNS (5 Nov 2026).
