A MAN was arrested on suspicion of drug driving after a car crashed into a wall on Friday evening.

Emergency services attended Birchley Road, in Billinge, shortly before 8pm on January 19.

Police said a report had been made of a car being in collision with a wall.

A 39-year-old man from Wigan was arrested on suspicion of driving a vehicle whilst unfit through drugs and driving a vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

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A Merseyside Police spokesman said: "We received a report of a damage-only road traffic collision on Birchley Road, Billinge, at around 7.50pm on Friday, January 19.

"It was reported that a car had been involved in a collision with a wall and a 39-year-old from Wigan was arrested on suspicion of driving a vehicle whilst unfit through drugs and driving a vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

"He has been released under investigation."