LITERALLY 'breaking news'.

A three-point turn looks to have gone disastrously wrong on a usually quiet road in Winchester today.

A silver Ford crashed into a wall in College Street near Winchester College. It left the car straddling the pavement and a flower bed in the Warden's Garden.

The force was such that the vehicle punched a hole in the wall, leaving a large number of bricks in place but likely to fall in the coming hours, without emergency support. A number of bricks were left on the roof of the car.

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Exactly how it happened remains unclear. College Street is a cul de sac with through access from Wharf Hill blocked off close to the crash site near the college Porter's Lodge. Traffic rarely travels at more than 10mph.

The authorities are aware as the vehicle has been fenced off with security barriers. No-one is thought to have been hurt, one passer-by said.

It has since been removed.

It was unclear whether the Warden's Garden, which dates from the 15th century, has ever had a vehicle embedded in its wall.

College Street used to be much busier as it was Winchester's most notorious rat runs providing an alternative route south of the city centre from Chesil Street to St Cross Road.

It was closed in the early 1990s after a campaign started by the then-landlord of the Wykeham Arms, the late Graeme Jameson.