Latest pictures show devastation as clean-up crews clear HGV which ploughed into Barnsley property

Nearby residents described hearing a sound like a ‘rumble of thunder’ at around 5.50am, when the HGV came down Sheffield Road in the Oxspring area of Barnsley and crashed into two parked cars.

The HGV vehicle - which is branded as Suregrow Fertiliser - ploughed through the parked cars, through a garden wall and into a shed.

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A Star reporter at the scene at around 12.30pm said that the three damaged vehicles have now been removed, however the road remains closed as work continues.

One of the property’s gardens walls has been completely obliterated, while rubble remains strewn across the side of the road.

A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police said: “We are at the scene of a road traffic collision in Sheffield Road, Oxspring.

“A lorry is understood to have collided with several parked cars and caused damage to a wall as well as an unoccupied property in the street.

“No serious injuries have been reported as a result of the collision but the driver of the lorry has been taken to hospital as a precaution.

“A road closure is in place between Roughbirchworth Lane and Bank View while emergency services work at the scene.”

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