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Officers hurt as police car hits garden wall

News imageSharon Edwards/BBC An estate police car with its front crumpled and embedded in a garden wall of a house with a hedge above it. A number of ambulances are parked nearby.Sharon Edwards/BBC

A police car has crashed into the garden wall of a house in Lincoln while responding to an emergency call.

Lincolnshire Police said the car was using its blue lights when it collided with a car and then hit a wall and a telegraph pole on Newport.

The officers suffered minor injuries.

The road has been closed while the vehicle is being taken away.

News imageSharon Edwards/BBC A man wearing a blue cap, a black jacket and a checked shirt, standing on a pavement. There are houses and parked cars in the background.Sharon Edwards/BBC
Roy Temporal described hearing a loud thud

Local resident Roy Temporal, 82, a retired HGV driver, described hearing sirens followed by "a solid thud".

"It was that loud I knew there had been a crash," he said.

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