POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a stolen vehicle was found crashed and abandoned in a ditch on Felixkirk Road near Thirsk.
The grey Mercedes A Class was stolen from a property in Ingramgate, Thirsk, after burglars broke into the house and took the car keys.
The car then crashed into a ditch on the road o Felixkirk from Sutton Road, and was spotted by a passing motorist at 7am on July 31 - but the occupants had left the scene.
Police believe the people inside the crashed vehicle were helped out of it by a third party.
They are appealing to anyone who assisted at the scene, saw the crash or its aftermath or any suspicious activity in the Ingramgate area to contact them.
Call 101, select option two and ask for PC Douglas Miller or email douglas.miller@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
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