Emergency gas services attended
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'.READ MORE: Nicola Bulley's dad says 'every day a struggle' three weeks on from when she went missing
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. 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.”
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