These dramatic accidents were caught on camera as they happened by readers of the Telegraph & Argus.

David Staincliffe was able to get the picture of a white Nissan pickup truck after youths disengaged its handbrake, allowing it to roll down Heights Lane, Heaton, destroying a car and a garden wall.

And Joe Woollard, 63, was on hand with his camera at a similar incident, when a BMW crashed into an Oakworth garden on Sunday afternoon.

The T&A is urging readers to send in photographs of incidents they have captured.

Mr Staincliffe, of Duchy Avenue, Heaton, said: "My next-door neighbour and I had been talking about all the motor accidents that had happened in the district over the years and he came round and said we have got another one, just down the road.

"It looks like somebody had let the handbrake off the car and let it roll down the hill."

The truck belonged to RHF Plant Roadsweepers, of Heights Lane, and owner Simon Keeling, 37, said the damage will cost thousands of pounds.

He said: "When I heard what had happened I was absolutely mortified.

"I was frightened to death. If somebody was pushing a pram up the hill or a little old lady was coming up with her shopping - it would have killed them. The people who did this just have no thought or regard for anybody else's life."

Police are now appealing for anyone who may have any information about the incident. A spokesman said they are looking for a group of Asian males, aged between 12 and 16, wearing sports T-shirts. Anybody who has any information should contact Bradford North Police on (01274) 376259.

In Keighley, a car crashed into a garden on Bronte Drive, just minutes after a young child had been playing there with his family.

John-Paul Gerard's four-year-old son had been walking on the wall where the car landed on Sunday afternoon. Mr Gerard said the silver BMW had been travelling along Oakworth Road above his house.

After a collision with another car it hit a tree, careered across the road and ploughed through Mr Gerard's fence.

Mr Woollard, who lives opposite, said: "I just heard the bang and then I heard the fence cracking and smashing, so I came down from my garden and saw what had happened.

"It had actually snapped the telephone wires and cut our next-door neighbour off and took the bark off a tree.

"There were lots of people taking pictures and I thought, well, it's an event - so I took pictures as well.

"I took them mainly to send to my son in London and to show people what had happened."

Mr Gerard said he would be campaigning for speed cameras on the stretch of Oakworth Road around Bogthorn.

  • If you have taken pictures of an accident or event, send them in to the Telegraph &Argus, Hall Ings, Bradford, BD1 1JR or e-mail them to our picture desk at simon.waites@bradford.newsquest.co.uk.