Drama on the city’s roads in week of crashes

Emergency crews have been kept busy across the region after a series of road traffic accidents. A gaping hole was left in the front wall of a house in Wisbech after a car left the road and ploughed into the building after dark.

Two fire crews were scrambled to the dramatic scene, on March 10, after operators received an emergency call at 10.05pm.

The crews, from Wisbech and Kings Lynn, spent around an hour at the scene working to release one person from the crunched car, which was left stranded in the garden of the house in Elm High Road.

Two people had required urgent medical attention after sustaining injuries in am earlier crash on a rural road near Peterborough, at around 2pm on Thursday, March 7.

The pair had to be taken to Peterborough City Hospital with minor injuries after the accident, in which a car and a van collided.

A police spokes person said the two casulties were believed to have been the drivers of both vehicles.

Police were forced to close off Stowe Road, in Langtoft, Lincolnshire, where the crash took place while medics attended to the injured pair.

Elesewhere specialist rescue equipment was needed to free a woman who became trapped after a crash on the northbound carriageway of the A1.

The crash, which took place on the A1, near Peterborough, also onMarch10, required the assistance of rescue crews from the Peterborough and Stamford.

A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said the Mother’s Day crash had involved two cars, oneof which was in the centre of the carriageway.

Firefighters used cutting and hydraulic equipment to cut a woman from her vehicle after the crash between Carpenters Lodge and Stamford.

As the temperature dropped on Monday, a double decker bus carrying school children had to be abandoned.

The bus had slipped off the road during in Whaplode on March 11, during the cold snap,

Lincolnshire Police said the Brylaine bus had left the road in Cobgate, Whaplode near Spalding at 8.10am.

After almost running into a ditch, its driver was unable to reverse from the side of the road and was forced to send for a replacement bus to take the youngsters to school.

Lincolnshire Police said nobody had been injured.

The scene in Elm High Road where a car had ploughed into a house.

The accident in Stowe Road just outside Langtoft.

The bus which crashed in treacherous conditions.