Police searching for two people after car enters river
The car left North Brink and entered the River Nene
Three people were able to get out of the car after it entered the River Nene on North Brink (stock image)(Image: Google)
Cambridgeshire Police are searching for two people after a car left the road and entered the River Nene near Wisbech. The car was travelling southbound on North Brink, in Wisbech St Mary’s, at around 8.20pm on Tuesday, March 17, before it left the road.
The car contained five people aged between 16 and 18. Two were male and three were female.
Three people, two female and one male, are known to have got out of the vehicle. They have been taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn with non-life threatening injuries.
A male and a female have not been accounted for and police are continuing to search for them. North Brink is likely to be closed for the remainder of the day.
Police are now appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage of the incident. Anyone with information about the incident should use the reference incident 515 of 17 March and report it through the Cambridgeshire Police website. Anyone without access to the internet should call 101.
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