SUNDAY afternoon saw Newton Abbot’s firefighters called into action as a car careened through a brick wall and into a garden shed.

Newton Abbot Fire Station dispatched an appliance on Sunday, May 18, following reports of a vehicle fire in the vicinity.

Upon arrival, however, the crew discovered it was, in actual fact, a road traffic collision involving an electric car that had gone through a low brick wall and crashed into a shed in the garden.

‘Thankfully, everyone was already free and clear from the vehicle prior to our arrival, and no injuries had been sustained’ a spokesperson for Newton Abbot Fire Station said.

The crew utilised its mobile data terminal to find the isolation locations and kill-switches for the high voltage systems in order to make the vehicle safe.

‘Due to the damage sustained, the crew had to use spreading and cutting equipment to remove the bonnet so that they could access these systems’ the spokesperson added.