A country road was partially blocked this morning after a car was struck by sugar beet that fell from a lorry. 

The incident happened at approximately 10am near Lingwood. 

The victim was driving along Blofield Road when the beet fell from the lorry near the turn-off to Heater Lane, damaging the car. 

Sugar beet harvesting in NorfolkSugar beet harvesting in Norfolk (Image: Newsquest) It is understood that sugar beet farms in the Lingwood area had advised on social media that they would be loading their crops on to lorries this morning and apologised in advance for any disruption to road users. 

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Norfolk is one of the UK's top sugar beet producers.

The crop is grown in East Anglia and the East Midlands through the spring and summer, before being harvested and processed at one of British Sugar's four manufacturing plants in Bury St Edmunds, Cantley, Newark and Wissington.