Pick-up truck crashes into Cambridge tree in early hours

A pick-up truck crashed into a Cambridge tree in the early hours of Wednesday morning (August 9) - knocking it down. Police were called to the incident outside Chesterton Methodist Church in Ashfield Road, Chesterton.

The vehicle involved was a Toyota Hilux. No one was injured in the incident, which took place shortly before 1.30am.

Cambridgeshire^[1] Constabulary said: "We were called at about 1.20am on August 9, with reports a truck had collided with a tree in Ashfield Road, Cambridge. A Toyota Hilux was the only vehicle involved.

The tree, after a truck collided into it (Image: CambridgeshireLive)

The incident led some people living in the area to voice their concerns about road safety in the area on a Chesterton-based public Facebook^[3] group. One person said: "Another tree in our street gone. They drive crazily around here at night," while someone else likened the driving in the area to that seen on a racetrack.

One person who lives on Eastfield, which leads onto Ashfield Road, said: "My cat was killed outside my house by a speeding driver and my daughter almost got taken out crossing the road, as we live by the corner and people speed around it. They need to put extra speed bumps on the back roads."

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References

1. ^{^} Cambridgeshire (www.cambridge-news.co.uk)
2. ^{^} Four-car crash in Stretham leaves person seriously injured and road closed (www.cambridge-news.co.uk)
3. ^{^} Facebook (www.cambridge-news.co.uk)