Colchester crash where four died was so horrific police told locals 'don't let kids see'

Residents surviving adjacent to a horrific car clang successful Colchester, Essex, which claimed 4 lives were told to not fto their children spot the carnage until the betterment was complete

The aftermath of the car clang successful which four radical died was truthful horrific police officers knocked connected the doors of adjacent houses to impulse parents to not fto their children witnesser the distressing scenes.

As dawn broke yesterday officers went doorway to doorway to pass mums and dada successful the neighbourhood conscionable however atrocious the accident had been. Dozens of exigency workers arrived astatine the country successful Colchester, Essex pursuing the incident.

One woman, who lives connected Magdalen Street, told Mirror Online: “Officers knocked connected doors to talk to radical surviving adjacent to the clang site. They told them to support the curtains drawn arsenic the betterment cognition was truthful atrocious to see.

“They didn’t privation young children to beryllium traumatised by the show of the wreckage of the car being removed from the building. It was a monolithic and analyzable cognition to get the bodies and the car retired of the 2nd manus shop.

“The clang happened earlier 5am and erstwhile it was daylight implicit 2 hours aboriginal they were inactive moving connected the recovery. It was dreadful to spot successful specified a quiescent portion of Colchester.”

Earlier Mirror Online reported the car was "left wholly unrecognisable". Firefighters adjacent had to physique a impermanent woody level conscionable to escaped the bodies of the operator and 3 passengers from the wrecked car.

The destroyed conveyance was embedded heavy into the walls of a second-hand store successful Colchester, Essex. Eye-witnesses said the car had been travelling astatine “high speed” and “on the incorrect broadside of the road” earlier the mishap astatine 4.40am yesterday. Unconfirmed reports said the 4 dormant were students - 3 men and 1 woman.

Mike Davies, 66, a builder from Colchester, said: “It’s my friend’s shop. Police told maine the car was truthful severely damaged wrong the gathering they couldn’t adjacent archer what marque oregon exemplary it was.

“They had to conception a impermanent woody level to beryllium capable to instrumentality it out. They adjacent had to bring successful a JCB to assistance get it freed. The gathering is wholly wrecked.”