Police are investigating reports of a vehicle crashing into a wall at a house near Middlesbrough. The property on Steele Crescent, South Bank, is close to the scenes of a crash on the A66, in which seven people died on Saturday, and a house fire in Grangetown where a seven-year-old girl and her aunt were killed.

Cleveland Police said it has not been confirmed whether there is any link to the latest incident. Officers were called to the house after 12:30am on Thursday. Superintendent Emily Harrison said: “The property was empty at the time and we have not currently received any reports of any injuries.

“Officers are conducting enquiries to establish the circumstances surrounding this incident.

“Our investigation is in its early stages and it has not yet been confirmed whether this incident is linked to wider organised crime.”

One neighbour said her daughter saw the incident and speaking to the Daily Mail, described a car that “kept going backwards and forwards into the wall over and over”.

It comes after a house in the Acklam area was rammed by a car prior to the fatal A66 crash on Saturday.

The home reportedly belonged to the father of 17-year-old Cole Worthy — one of the five young men who died when a Volkswagen Passat travelling in the wrong direction hit a Cleveland Police armed response vehicle.

According to reports, it is thought the group set out in the vehicle after the house was rammed.

Theo Rae, 17, Makai Saddington, 18, and 23-year-olds Michael Robert Cahill and Jacob Matusiak were also travelling in the Passat and were pronounced dead at the scene.

Pc Tom Clough, 38, and Pc Matthew Blades, 37, were the two police officers who died in the crash.