Narrow miss for homes as ancient tree crashes to earth on Ecclesall Road in Sheffield

The Star, Sheffield

Sheffield's Ecclesall Road was shut last night (September 18) when An enormous poplar tree crashed down onto two cars and narrowly missed a set of homes nearby.

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00:00Good morning Sheffield, it's Alistair from the Sheffield Star and I'm speaking to you from

00:02Eckersall Road where last night two homeowners seem to have had a bit of a lucky break when

00:07this ancient oprah tree that you can see behind me came crashing to earth. I was speaking to a

00:11man who was having a pint at the Champs pub across the road who told me there was the very classic

00:16crack, creep, bang like something as a movie as this tree behind me came crashing to earth.

00:23Despite the clear damage it actually very luckily missed both houses that it was leaning towards

00:29both houses from my forest you can see have been unscathed in this however two cars were caught

00:34underneath it on two separate properties and are now in absolute pieces this morning. More lucky

00:38is that nobody was hurt in that neither of the properties were damaged and the tree didn't fall

00:42away if it had fallen the other direction towards Champs it would have easily reached the pub and

00:46caused damaging maybe a loss of life there as well but instead it's come to earth and no one's been

00:52hurt in the process and no properties have been damaged it's just a loss of a very ancient tree

00:57here in Sheffield that I understand was on the ancient tree register. Tree surgeons were out

01:02last night the road was closed by police from around 7pm while they did their work and they

01:07continue to work at the scene today wondering how they're having removed but in the meantime a loss

01:12of an ancient tree in Sheffield but thankfully with no property damage and no loss of life.

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