A YOUNG woman has told how she awoke to find her car upended on its bonnet after an accident involving a tractor on a narrow country road.
Richard Smith
A YOUNG woman has told how she awoke to find her car upended on its bonnet after an accident involving a tractor on a narrow country road.
This dramatic picture of a blue Fiat Punto owned by Kim Rogers was taken by her boyfriend Adrian Smith outside his rented property in Snape Road, Tunstall, near Woodbridge.
The accident involving a tractor and two cars occurred at about 7.15am on Sunday and woke many villagers. Thankfully, no-one was injured.
The two cars were parked in a lay-by beside the road to Snape, close to the junction with Orford Road, when the accident took place.
Miss Rogers, 20, of Parham, said: “My car is completely written off after what happened. I heard a pretty loud noise but did not think anything of it.
“But my boyfriend had to get up to go to work and he said there had been an accident. I walked out of the front door and I saw my car balancing on its headlights - what a shock to have on a Sunday morning.”
Mr Smith, who works at Sink Farm, Eyke, was one of many people to take a photograph of the scene.
A neighbour, who declined to be named, said 10 farm workers came to the scene and cleared up after damage to a garden wall.
She has lived in Tunstall for eight years and she said a 20mph speed limit was required due to the narrowness of the road approaching the junction.
“What happened to the wall is a mess but that can be cleared up and the main thing is that no-one was hurt,” she said.
A 19-year-old man from Hollesley will appear before magistrates in Ipswich on June 23 in connection with the accident.
Anne-Marie Breach, a spokeswoman for Suffolk police, said Adam Row had been charged with fraud, driving without due care and attention, driving without insurance and driving while disqualified.
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