A MAN in his twenties has been arrested after a traffic collision that saw a telegraph pole brought down in Newton Abbot.

Police were called at 7.45pm on Tuesday, October 22 following a report of an road traffic collision at St Marychurch Road.

It was reported that two vehicles had overturned and a telegraph had fallen on one vehicle.

The ambulance and fire services were both also called and a road closure put in place.

None of those involved are believed to have suffered life-threatening or life-changing injuries.

A man in his 20s, from Torquay, was arrested on suspicion of driving whilst unfit through drugs and taken to hospital.