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Oct 2024

Last Updated: 10/10/2024
Crime
Crime

Man breathalysed after car flies through hedge and lands in Valley Gardens

by Lauren Ryan

| 10 Oct, 2024
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In October, a car flew over the hedge and crash landed in Valley Gardens.

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A car appears to have jumped over a hedge and crash-landed in the Valley Gardens in Harrogate.

Visitors to the gardens this morning were shocked to see the wreckage of the red Mazda on the grass near the Valley Drive entrance.

The car appears to have left the road on Cornwall Road and crashed through the hedge, narrowly missing some benches, before stopping on the grass.

The incident is believed to have happened in the early hours of the morning. The car is currently cordoned off with police tape.

The Stray Ferret asked North Yorkshire Police to provide further details about the incident but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

However, the force later posted:

A man was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after a car crashed into Valley Gardens in Harrogate. The incident happened at 2.50am today and we were alerted to it by calls from the public.

We attended to find the Mazda in a grassed area of the gardens and we breathalised the driver, a local man in his 30s. He was arrested at the scene on suspicion of drink driving but was taken to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. An investigation into the incident is ongoing. 

Here are some more photos of the scene.

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