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Fortunately there were no pedestrians about when the driver of a black saloon decided to park his vehicle on its side in front of the Old School this evening, although it was a near thing for Bill and Olive who were on their way to their home a few doors down. They were not involved but they were left a little shaken and slightly stirred by the incident . A posse of emergency vehicles were quickly on the scene shortly followed (thanks to the Farringdon grapevine and the Tangley telephone) by your reporter.

The driver is not believed to have suffered any serious injuries but, as a precaution, in case of any spinal tweaks in the impact, firemen removed the roof of the car to allow the ambulance crew access to extract the driver.No other vehicles were damaged in the incident.

With the driver safely on his way to hospital and no serious injuries as a result, all that remained was to clear up the scene and for the onlookers and experts to ponder the course of events that caused someone to park a car on its side in The Street and the possible consequences had any pedestrians been on the road at the time.

From the rear it is immediately apparent that the front nearside wheel attacked the low wall at the side of Cobbles drive and lost out in the skirmish but the impact tipped the car on its side, after which it slid along the road eventually stopping against the hedge bank.

I have no knowledge as to the speed of the the vehicle prior to the incident, but bearing in mind the narrow road and poor visibility at this point, and taking into account that there are usually cars parked on the south side of The Street, one would expect vehicles to be travelling at a speed well below the 30 mph limit on this stretch.

Within a short time the recovery vehicle arrived to pick up a very second hand BMW 316 i s saloon with a hurried open top conversion. I'm not sure what the 'i' and the 's' on the rear of the vehicle indicate but I'm sure the more erudite amongst you can think of something suitable.

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