Police have been hunting a driver who fled from the scene of a one-vehicle crash in Eaton Bray Road Northall,....
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Van chase ends in hedge crash

Posted on September 27, 2008

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Police have been hunting a driver who fled from the scene of a one-vehicle crash in Eaton Bray Road Northall, in the early hours of Friday.

A grey Ford Escort van overturned into a hedgerow and burst into flames but the motorist escaped the vehicle and ran off before police or firefighters could talk to him.

Leighton firefighters used thermal-imaging equipment to search the nearby undergrowth to check that he hadn't fallen injure.

Anyone with information about the crash, which happened shortly before 2am, should contact Leighton Police on 01234 841212.

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Source: Leighton Buzzard Today

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