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Police car crashes into Norton war memorial | Police car crashes into Norton war memorial |
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A police car on an emergency call ended up crashing into a village war memorial after hitting another vehicle. | |
The marked car crashed with a Mini Clubman on Ixworth Road in Norton, Suffolk, at about 13:10 BST. | |
The driver of the Mini suffered a wrist injury and officers had minor bruising. | |
Norton Parish Council chairman Andy Burt said he heard sirens before he saw the police car "ramping up the war memorial after hearing an enormous screeching sound". | |
Mr Burt, 35, said the memorial was "probably the most prominent point" in the village and was "probably even more prominent now because it's got a police car sat on top of it". | |
'Significant repair work' | |
The parish council spent about £2,000 last year restoring the memorial in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. | |
"We weren't expecting to adorn it with a police response vehicle," Mr Burt said. | |
He said it now needed "significant repair work" but they would "do everything we can to get it restored in time" for the anniversary in November. | |
BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Stephanie Mackentyre said: "The police car was quite badly damaged. | |
"One of its wheels had come off. There was a small car to our left. There was an ambulance on scene. We couldn't see if anyone was injured." | |
Police said minor damage was also caused to a stationary Audi A6 and an investigation into the cause of the crash was under way. |
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