Man, 73, crashes Porsche 911 through wall

A 73-year-old driver crashed his Porsche through a car park wall and on to a footpath below.

Essex Police said nobody was injured in Thursday's incident in Colchester, and that the man was reported for careless driving.

The Porsche 911 Targa 4S was left resting on its bonnet and almost vertical following the crash in Crouch Street.

Roads policing Sergeant Colin Shead tweeted photographs of the incident and said the driver will be offered a fitness to drive course and the DVLA notified.

The badly-damaged car, estimated to be worth more than £50,000, was hoisted away by a crane.

Nicole Rose, 44, who lives in nearby Lexden Road, said "I was just going into town with my friend when I said, That looks like the back end of a car.

"It went straight through and was hanging off the end.

"The police had cordoned off the area but there was no ambulance or fire service there.

"Just a lot of men working out how they were going to move it."