Woman arrested after out-of-control car smashes into railings on Wigan street
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Emergency services were called to Standish High Street at around 9.50am on Friday September 22 to find a grey Volkswagen four-by-four had come to grief.
Paramedics were called to the scene but their services were not required.
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Hide AdA crew from Wigan fire station was also called but, with no-one trapped, their main job was to make the damaged vehicle safe by isolating the fuel line. The car was later towed away.
A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: “We were called at 9.50am today to reports of a road traffic collision between a car and railing on Wigan Road, Standish.
"A woman in her 30s was arrested on suspicion of failing to provide a sample to officers.”
A spokesman for the Wigan fire crew said that the railings purpose of protecting pedestrians and property had done their job.