A GOOD Samaritan said his wallet and car keys were stolen while tending to victims of a car crash.

Senan Simmons, from Cutteslowe, rushed to the aid of drivers after he witnessed a head-on collision involving a people carrier and a Vauxhall Astra in Birmingham on Saturday night.

The 21-year-old had been to a Birmingham City University sports awards evening – where he has just finished a business degree – before he saw the collision when walking with friends to the student union at about 9pm.

He said he sprinted to help one of the drivers and took off his suit jacket to climb into the car.

But after an ambulance arrived and Mr Simmons had finished tending to the people involved, he found the jacket containing his car keys, credit cards, driving licence and £60 in cash had been stolen.

The Keble College events manager said: “I took off my suit jacket to get into the car to help one of the drivers who was drifting in and out of conciousness. I’m possibly the only witness to the collision. I ran straight to the first car and jumped in to check on the driver.

“After he gained conciousness I ran to the other car where the ambulance and other people were helping.

“But by time I came back my jacket was gone.

“The main thing for me is that the the people in the cars are okay and I wish them a speedy recovery.”

The Yarnton Football Club player said he had been celebrating with his teammates after his university side won Team of the Year.

And he said the thief also took the trophy he had received from the awards night at Villa Park just hours before. He added: “I lost about £225 because it is probably going to cost me that much to replace everything.

“How do you do something like that? I don’t know what would push someone to do that. But I would do the same again because people’s health are a lot more important than my stuff.”

Mr Simmons had to ask friends to pay for a taxi home and had to ring Keble College to say he was unable to attend work the next day.

One of his friends from Oxford, Carl Hibbins, drove up to Birmingham with a spare set of car keys.

And Mr Simmons has now reported the incident to the police. He said: “It was a really good night we were having. I’m back in Oxford now and my mum has pretty strong views on why someone would stoop that low.

“But she is proud of what I did, and I just hope the people recover okay.”

West Midlands Police spokesman Billy Corrigan said: “In terms of the reported theft we are not investigating this incident as a crime.”