POLICE are investigating after a driver crashed their car into the wall in a busy residential street.

Officers were called to Old Heath Road, Colchester, just before 9am yesterday when a woman driving a Mazda went into the wall of a front garden.

No-one was injured.

A spokeswoman for Essex Police confirmed they were looking into the circumstances surrounding the crash.

She said: “We were called to Old Heath Road in Colchester to reports of a collision.

“A white Mazda left the road at around 8.55am on Thursday.

“It was subsequently in collision with a wall.

“The driver, a woman aged in her 30s, was uninjured.

“Our inquiries to establish the cause of the collision are continuing.”

Neighbours said they believed the car had been travelling along the street in the direction of the town centre before it veered across the opposite lane of traffic.

It then hit the front of a parked Volkswagen which caused some damage, the garden wall and nearby trees.

Fortunately, no moving cars were hit and no pedestrians were walking on the pavement at the time of the incident.

One resident said he had been disturbed by the loud crash which was just yards away from his house but had no idea about what had happened.

Police officers were on the scene yesterday.

Neighbours opposite said they were made aware of the incident after spotting police cars.

One said: “It is really strange for it to happen.

“There are no skid marks or anything really to see on the road.

“But it looks like they have gone across the road and then into the wall.

“It could be they were ill at the wheel or something like that.

“Fortunately there was nothing coming in the other lane or something really bad might have happened.

“The surface of the road can feel a bit slippy at the moment because of how dry it has been. They may have lost control because of that.

“We saw a woman being spoken to by police and she was sitting in the car.

“She seemed a little bit in shock about what had happened.”

Anyone with information can call police on 101.