A Spalding woman is counting her blessings after a car that left the road, took out hedges, trees and a lamppost before hitting her house, caused minimal damage.
Maureen Harker, who was in the chippy a few doors down getting her tea when the accident happened at about 5.30pm on Friday, says she would have been terrified if she’d been in the house at the time.
The car was travelling along Alexandra Road, when it left the road, ploughed through hedges at numbers 35 and 37, hit a lamppost and a parked car, and finished up wedged under Maureen’s bay window.
Fortunately the only damage to the property was a graze to the brickwork and slight damage to a gas pipe which has been inspected by British Gas and declared safe.
Maureen said: “I was in the chip shop getting my tea when a neighbour came in and said a car had taken down a lamppost.
“When I looked the car was across my drive, wedged under the bay window and it had taken down my hedge and a conifer.
“The driver, who had come from Woking in Surrey, was taken to hospital to be checked out but was released within a few hours.
“I was so lucky that there wasn’t more damage.
“The car could have come right through into the house and it’s a busy road here, if someone had been walking along the pavement I dread to think what might have happened.”
Three fire crews attended the scene, along with the police and paramedics, and the Toyota was towed away from the house by a fire engine.
