Car turned on its side surprises residents in Cambridge ‘quiet street’

Sturton Street residents popping out for a pint of milk on Saturday morning were treated to an unusual sight: a car sitting on its side in the middle of the road.

Local resident Julian Clover took the photo of the vehicle and said the incident was worrying.

“I woke to this on Saturday morning,” he said. “The car seems to have raced down Sturton Street, taken out the pay and display machine and overturned.

“You just think: ‘How did they do that?’ I don’t think I could do that if i tried.

“Sturton Street is usually genuinely the proverbial quiet street, nothing happens. But it’s not the first time – two years ago a car did something similar, closer to Milford Street.

“It’s probably one of few terraced streets in Cambridge where speeding is possible, at least in the first stretch which is relatively wide up until the Dobblers Inn, then it narrows to one lane with parked cars on one side: there’s traffic calming later on, and right at the end of Sturton Street you can’t go straight on into Kingston Street.

“So it starts off quite exciting for a boy racer, being quite straight where the roads are sort-of wide, but you don’t get to go too far before you find obstacles including the car park – and the pay and display meter.”

A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said: “We were called at 9.25am on Saturday with reports of a single vehicle collision on Sturton Street. The driver had slight injuries. The car had collided with a parking machine before coming to a stop. Officers contacted the council to collect the machine.”