Car crashes into garden wall and causes gas leak on major Rochdale road

A smash on a major Rochdale road this evening saw emergency gas crews called after a car hit a garden wall and damaged a gas pipe.

Emergency services were called to Bury New Road in Heywood shortly after 7pm to reports of a collision between two cars. A nearby garden wall was damaged and fire crews called emergency gas services after 'smelling gas'.

Cadent Gas attended and made the pipe safe. No emergency services remain at the scene.

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A Cadent spokesman said: “We were called by the fire service earlier this evening, after a car drove into a garden wall and damaged the gas service pipe to a property on Bury New Road, Heywood. Gas emergency engineers attended and made the gas pipe safe and capped the gas supply off to the property.

“Our engineers have now left site after making the gas pipe safe.”

A spokesman for the fire and rescue service said: “Shortly after 7pm on Friday 17 February, firefighters were called out to a road traffic collision on Bury New Road, Heywood.

“Two fire engines from Heywood and Bury attended the scene where two cars had collided, resulting in a nearby garden wall being damaged. The smell of gas was coming from the wall and the incident has handed over to Cadent Gas. Fire crews were detained for ten minutes.”

Greater Manchester Police has been contacted for comment.

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