A TRAILER careered down a steep hill today and smashed through the front bay window of a house. It happened at about 9.30am at Stockers Hill, Rodmersham, near Sittingbourne.

Fortunately nobody was injured. The four-wheel trailer had been used to transport an excavator to a new house being built on the hill.

It had just been unloaded when the trailer started rolling back as it was being unhooked from a truck. It then rolled down the hill and down the steep front garden of a house called Langdale and ended up in the front room.

The TV was knocked over and bricks were strewn all over the floor.

Owner Helen Burton was out at the time and her mother Marie Buckley, who also lives there, was just returning to the house.

Mrs Burton said: "This was an accident waiting to happen because we never wanted the house built there in the first place."

Trailer owner Frances McGinty of Sheppey based A and P civil engineering said: "Blocks had been put behind the wheels but it rolled over them as it was being unhooked."