Villagers getting ready for bed were stunned when they heard a 'big bang' and realised a car had crashed into a fence on a 'manic' road where road traffic collisions are a 'regular occurrence'. The latest collision in Burton Joyce happened in Nottingham Road, near its junction with Maris Drive, in the early hours of Saturday (May 7).
Fortunately no one was injured but the car involved remains cordoned off with visible damage caused to the fences of two different houses. One of the homeowners whose fence was damaged said the road was "getting more dangerous" with separate incidents reported in quick succession.
The man, who asked not to be named, said he hadn't had chance to process his emotions. “I think my camera caught a police guy at 1.30am. They left a card to call back," the homeowner said.
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“I don’t know how I feel - that road is getting more dangerous: it’s happened at the bus stop, and, within a week that it was damaged, someone went into it again. It’s worrying how fast they could have been going to go into two fences.” The man explained he was waiting to hear back from Nottinghamshire Police over details relating to the driver's insurance.
Officers said they were called to a road traffic collision overnight and confirmed there'd been no injuries. Further information in relation to the investigation is unclear, however, at this stage.
One neighbour reported hearing a 'big bang'. He'd been getting ready for bed when the collision happened, and he said it wasn't the first time something like this had happened in recent weeks. In a separate incident, he recalled seeing an overturn car that had "spun around on its roof".
"It’s manic," he said. "It’s a regular thing, it’s the second one this week - the fourth or fifth one this month, in the past four or five weeks. I went out and thought it was [going to be] far worse - luckily the lad was OK - he was very lucky, very lucky.
“I had just got up to bed, it happened dead on one in the morning. It’s a regular occurrence; it’s dangerous.” Another local resident, Brian Andrews, who is 83, said he was glad no one had been injured. Mr Andrews said: “It’s getting worse now - it’s a job just to walk across the road. It’s good they’re [people involved] all right. The car, scrap it - as long as nobody is injured it doesn’t matter.”
A resident, who asked not to be named, said there were "terrible" problems with speeding, saying neighbours had to be careful when pulling out of the Maris Drive junction.
Meanwhile, villagers on social media also said traffic had been "insane" and "getting worse". In recent weeks, police carried a speeding operation in the village near the newly-opened Colliery Way £49m road.
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